A TROPICAL CYCLONE-BASED METHOD FOR GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION

This paper proposes a new heuristic, Tropical Cyclone-based Method (TCM), for solving global optimization problems with box constraints. TCM mimics the formation process of tropical cyclones in the atmosphere to move a set of sample points towards optimality. The formation of a tropical cyclone in nature is still not completely understood by people. Nevertheless, inspired by the known formation factors of a tropical cyclone, TCM is designed to seek optimal solutions by considering airflow, disturbance, and convection in order to traverse the solution space. Experimental results on some well-known nonlinear test functions are included. Compared with the well-known Electromagnetism-like Mechanism (EM), TCM is both effective and efficient for solving the reported test functions.