TY - JOUR
T1 - Salp Swarm Optimization
T2 - a Critical Review
AU - Castelli, Mauro
AU - Manzoni, Luca
AU - Mariot, Luca
AU - Nobile, Marco S.
AU - Tangherloni, Andrea
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - In the crowded environment of bio-inspired population-based meta-heuristics, the Salp Swarm Optimization (SSO) algorithm recently appeared and immediately gained a lot of momentum. Inspired by the peculiar spatial arrangement of salp colonies, which are displaced in long chains following a leader, this algorithm seems to provide interesting optimization performances. However, the original work was characterized by some conceptual and mathematical flaws, which influenced all ensuing papers on the subject. In this manuscript, we perform a critical review of SSO, highlighting all the issues present in the literature and their negative effects on the optimization process carried out by the algorithm. We also propose a mathematically correct version of SSO, named Amended Salp Swarm Optimizer (ASSO) that fixes all the discussed problems. Finally, we benchmark the performance of ASSO on a set of tailored experiments, showing it achieves better results than the original SSO.
AB - In the crowded environment of bio-inspired population-based meta-heuristics, the Salp Swarm Optimization (SSO) algorithm recently appeared and immediately gained a lot of momentum. Inspired by the peculiar spatial arrangement of salp colonies, which are displaced in long chains following a leader, this algorithm seems to provide interesting optimization performances. However, the original work was characterized by some conceptual and mathematical flaws, which influenced all ensuing papers on the subject. In this manuscript, we perform a critical review of SSO, highlighting all the issues present in the literature and their negative effects on the optimization process carried out by the algorithm. We also propose a mathematically correct version of SSO, named Amended Salp Swarm Optimizer (ASSO) that fixes all the discussed problems. Finally, we benchmark the performance of ASSO on a set of tailored experiments, showing it achieves better results than the original SSO.
U2 - 10.48550/arXiv.2106.01900
DO - 10.48550/arXiv.2106.01900
M3 - Article
VL - 2021
JO - arXiv
JF - arXiv
M1 - 2106.01900
ER -