Self-adaptive salp swarm algorithm for optimization problems

In this paper, an enhanced version of the salp swarm algorithm (SSA) for global optimization problems was developed. Two improvements have been proposed: (i) Diversification of the SSA population referred as SSA _std , (ii) SSA parameters are tuned using a self-adaptive technique-based genetic algorithm (GA) referred as SSA _GA-tuner . The novelty of developing a self-adaptive SSA is to enhance its performance through balancing search exploration and exploitation. The enhanced SSA versions are evaluated using twelve benchmark functions. The diversified population of SSA _std enhances convergence behavior, and self-adaptive parameter tuning of SSA _GA-tuner improves the convergence behavior as well, thus improving performance. The comparative evaluation against nine well-established methods shows the superiority of the proposed SSA versions. The enhancement amount in accuracy was between 2.97 and 99