This paper extends the study of structural bias in popular metaheuristic global optimisation methods. Previously, it has been shown that both Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimisation suffer from such bias. This ...

Compact algorithms are Estimation of Distribution Algorithms which mimic the behavior of population-based algorithms by means of a probabilistic representation of the population of candidate solutions. These algorithms ...

Differential Evolution (DE) is a popular population-based continuous optimization algorithm that generates new candidate solutions by perturbing the existing ones, using scaled differences of randomly selected solutions ...