A Mahalanobis Surrogate-Assisted Ant Lion Optimization and Its Application in 3D Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks

Metaheuristic algorithms are widely employed in modern engineering applications because they do not need to have the ability to study the objective function’s features. However, these algorithms may spend minutes to hours or even days to acquire one solution. This paper presents a novel efficient Ma...

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Main Authors: Zhi Li, Shu-Chuan Chu, Jeng-Shyang Pan, Pei Hu, Xingsi Xue
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/586
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author Zhi Li
Shu-Chuan Chu
Jeng-Shyang Pan
Pei Hu
Xingsi Xue
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Shu-Chuan Chu
Jeng-Shyang Pan
Pei Hu
Xingsi Xue
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description Metaheuristic algorithms are widely employed in modern engineering applications because they do not need to have the ability to study the objective function’s features. However, these algorithms may spend minutes to hours or even days to acquire one solution. This paper presents a novel efficient Mahalanobis sampling surrogate model assisting Ant Lion optimization algorithm to address this problem. For expensive calculation problems, the optimization effect goes even further by using MSAALO. This model includes three surrogate models: the global model, Mahalanobis sampling surrogate model, and local surrogate model. Mahalanobis distance can also exclude the interference correlations of variables. In the Mahalanobis distance sampling model, the distance between each ant and the others could be calculated. Additionally, the algorithm sorts the average length of all ants. Then, the algorithm selects some samples to train the model from these Mahalanobis distance samples. Seven benchmark functions with various characteristics are chosen to testify to the effectiveness of this algorithm. The validation results of seven benchmark functions demonstrate that the algorithm is more competitive than other algorithms. The simulation results based on different radii and nodes show that MSAALO improves the average coverage by 2.122% and 1.718%, respectively.
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spelling doaj.art-a191ea8a108c4deca411bc6f6539027c2023-11-23T10:54:14ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002022-04-0124558610.3390/e24050586A Mahalanobis Surrogate-Assisted Ant Lion Optimization and Its Application in 3D Coverage of Wireless Sensor NetworksZhi Li0Shu-Chuan Chu1Jeng-Shyang Pan2Pei Hu3Xingsi Xue4College of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, ChinaFujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Applications, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou 350118, ChinaMetaheuristic algorithms are widely employed in modern engineering applications because they do not need to have the ability to study the objective function’s features. However, these algorithms may spend minutes to hours or even days to acquire one solution. This paper presents a novel efficient Mahalanobis sampling surrogate model assisting Ant Lion optimization algorithm to address this problem. For expensive calculation problems, the optimization effect goes even further by using MSAALO. This model includes three surrogate models: the global model, Mahalanobis sampling surrogate model, and local surrogate model. Mahalanobis distance can also exclude the interference correlations of variables. In the Mahalanobis distance sampling model, the distance between each ant and the others could be calculated. Additionally, the algorithm sorts the average length of all ants. Then, the algorithm selects some samples to train the model from these Mahalanobis distance samples. Seven benchmark functions with various characteristics are chosen to testify to the effectiveness of this algorithm. The validation results of seven benchmark functions demonstrate that the algorithm is more competitive than other algorithms. The simulation results based on different radii and nodes show that MSAALO improves the average coverage by 2.122% and 1.718%, respectively.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/586ant lion optimizationsurrogate modelmahalanobis distanceradial basis function network3D coveragewireless sensor networks
spellingShingle Zhi Li
Shu-Chuan Chu
Jeng-Shyang Pan
Pei Hu
Xingsi Xue
A Mahalanobis Surrogate-Assisted Ant Lion Optimization and Its Application in 3D Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks
Entropy
ant lion optimization
surrogate model
mahalanobis distance
radial basis function network
3D coverage
wireless sensor networks
title A Mahalanobis Surrogate-Assisted Ant Lion Optimization and Its Application in 3D Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks
title_full A Mahalanobis Surrogate-Assisted Ant Lion Optimization and Its Application in 3D Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks
title_fullStr A Mahalanobis Surrogate-Assisted Ant Lion Optimization and Its Application in 3D Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks
title_full_unstemmed A Mahalanobis Surrogate-Assisted Ant Lion Optimization and Its Application in 3D Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks
title_short A Mahalanobis Surrogate-Assisted Ant Lion Optimization and Its Application in 3D Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks
title_sort mahalanobis surrogate assisted ant lion optimization and its application in 3d coverage of wireless sensor networks
topic ant lion optimization
surrogate model
mahalanobis distance
radial basis function network
3D coverage
wireless sensor networks
url https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/586
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