Estimation of Distribution Algorithm Using Correlation between Binary Elements: A New Binary-Code Metaheuristic

Algorithm 2

Procedure for EDACE.

Input: number of generation (), population size (), binary length ()

Output: ,

Initialisation:

(0.1) Assign and , sized .

(0.2) Randomly generate binary solutions and decode them to be .

(0.3) Calculate objective function values where fun is an objective function evaluation.

(0.4) Find , ,

Main iterations

For to

Update using Equation (2)

Generate from using Algorithm 1, and decode them to be .

For to

Calculate objective function values .

If

, ,

End

End

Update , ,

End