partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.U0835002);the Fund for Foreign Scholars in University Research and Teaching Programs (Grant No.B07033);an EPSRC (Grant No.EP/E058884/1) on "Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimisation Problems:Design,Analysis and Applications";the Fund for Creative Research for Graduate Students of University of Science and Technology of China (Grant No.KD0901103)
One approach for evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to address dynamic optimization problems (DOPs) is to maintain diversity of the population via introducing immigrants. So far all immigrant schemes developed for EAs ...