TITLE:
A Quantum Behaved Gravitational Search Algorithm
AUTHORS:
Mohadeseh Soleimanpour Moghadam, Hossein Nezamabadi-Pour, Malihe M. Farsangi
KEYWORDS:
GSA; Quantum Mechanics; kbest; QGSA
JOURNAL NAME:
Intelligent Information Management,
Vol.4 No.6,
November
30,
2012
ABSTRACT: Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is a recent introduced global convergence guaranteed algorithm. In this paper, a quantum-behaved gravitational search algorithm, namely called as QGSA, is proposed. In the proposed QGSA each individual mass moves in a Delta potential well in feasible search space with a center which is weighted average of all kbests. The QGSA is tested on several benchmark functions and compared with the GSA. It is shown that the quantum-behaved gravitational search algorithm has faster convergence speed with good precision, and thus generating a better performance.