A Bare Bones Grey Wolf Optimizer for Global Numerical Optimization

Abstract: In order to better understand and analyze the currently widely used population-based metaheuristic optimization algorithms, , this paper proposes a novel computational intelligence algorithm called bare bones grey wolf optimizer (BBGWO) inspired by a bare bones mechanism. In the BBGWO, the complex updating mechanism of solutions is replaced by a random vector that obeys a normal distribution, whose mean and variance are derived by theoretically studying the probability distribution of the new solution of the original GWO. The corresponding theoretical analysis and simulation results verify the good optimization performance of the proposed BBGWO algorithm.