The intelligent clonal optimizer (ICO) is a new evolutionary algorithm, which adopts a new cloning and selection mechanism. In order to improve the performance of the algorithm, quasi-opposition-based and quasi-reflection-based learning strategy is applied according to the transition information from exploration to exploitation of ICO to speed up the convergence speed of ICO and enhance the diversity of the population. Furthermore, to avoid the stagnation of the optimal value update, an adaptive parameter method is designed. When the update of the optimal value falls into stagnation, it can adjust the parameter of controlling the exploration and exploitation in ICO to enhance the convergence rate of ICO and accuracy of the solution. At last, an improved intelligent chaotic clonal optimizer (IICO) based on adaptive parameter strategy is proposed. In this paper, twenty-seven benchmark functions, eight CEC 2104 test functions and three engineering optimization problems are used to verify the numerical optimization ability of IICO. Results of the proposed IICO are compared to ten similar meta-heuristic algorithms. The obtained results confirmed that the IICO exhibits competitive performance in convergence rate and accurate convergence.
Keywords: adaptive parameter; continuous optimization problems; intelligent clonal optimizer; opposition-based learning.