Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization with Learning Enthusiasm Mechanism and Its Application in Chemical Engineering

Algorithm 4

Poor student tutoring phase.

(1) Begin

(2)Sort all the learners from best to worst;

(3)The learners ranked at the bottom 10 percent are considered as the poor students.

(4)for each poor learner

(5)Randomly select a student ranked at the top 50 percent

(6)Update learner   according to Eq. (6);

(7)Evaluate the new learner ;

(8)Accept the new learner if it is better than the old one ;

(9)end for

(10) end