Benchmark Functions for Cooperative Coevolution and Analysis of Influence by Dynamic Problem Decomposition

Abstract

This paper proposes benchmark functions for cooperative coevolution (CC), which dynamically divides a target problem into smaller subproblems and solves in parallel.The proposed benchmark functions allow adjusting dependency strength between variables by changing the number of linkages and linkage types.Experimental results showed the in uence of dynamic decomposition change frequency to CC's optimization performance.