Omni-aiNet: An immune-inspired approach for omni optimization

This work presents omni-aiNet, an immune-inspired algorithm developed to solve single and multi-objective optimization problems, either with single and multi-global solutions. The search engine is capable of automatically adapting the exploration of the search space according to the intrinsic demand of the optimization problem. This proposal unites the concepts of omni-optimization, already proposed in the literature, with distinctive procedures associated with immune-inspired concepts. Due to the immune inspiration, the omni-aiNet presents a population capable of adjusting its size during the execution of the algorithm, according to a predefined suppression threshold, and a new grid mechanism to control the spread of solutions in the objective space. The omni-aiNet was applied to several optimization problems and the obtained results are presented and analyzed.