Experimental Study of Swarm Migration Algorithms on Stochastic and Global Optimisation Problem

Complex computational problems are occurrences in our daily lives that needs to be analysed effectively in order to make meaningful and informed decision. This study performs empirical analysis into the performance of six optimisation algorithms based on swarm intelligence on nine well known stochastic and global optimisation problems, with the aim of identifying a technique that returns an optimum output on some selected benchmark techniques. Extensive experiments show that, Multi-Swarm and Pigeon inspired optimisation algorithm outperformed Particle Swarm, Firefly and Evolutionary optimizations in both convergence speed and global solution. The algorithms adopted in this paper gives an indication of which algorithmic solution presents optimal results for a problem in terms of quality of performance, precision and efficiency.