Abstract: Algorithm fusion or co-evolutionary with multi populations are the solutions for complex engineering application. A multi-algorithm and multi-population collaborative optimization algorithm is proposed by differential evolution (DE) algorithm, which pays emphasis on algorithm selection and combination. The algorithm designs a parameter-adaptive DE algorithm and selects three different DE algorithm variants which is complementary for each other and provides a multi-population co-optimization scheme according to four algorithms characters. Stimulation results show that the proposed algorithm could make four different algorithms remedy for each other, gets a better result, and raises the precision, reliability and suitability, which reduces algorithm selection difficulty in engineering application.

Key words: differential evolution algorithm (DE), co-optimization, multi-algorithm and multi-population, algorithm selection