Locust Search (LS) Algorithm

Evolutionary computation method based on the behavior of swarms of locusts.

The LS algorithm is based on the simulation of the behavior presented in swarms of locusts. In the proposed algorithm, individuals emulate a group of locusts which interact to each other based on the biological laws of the cooperative swarm. Experimental results demonstrate a high performance of the proposed method for searching a global optimum in comparison with other well-known evolutionary methods.
More details in:

Erik Cuevas, Adrián González, Fernando Fausto, Daniel Zaldívar, and Marco Pérez-Cisneros, “Multithreshold Segmentation by Using an Algorithm Based on the Behavior of Locust Swarms,” Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2015, Article ID 805357, 25 pages, 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/805357.

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2015/805357/