Improved real-valued clonal selection algorithm based on a novel mutation method

Chaos theory describes complex motion and the dynamics of nonlinear systems. As a complex nonlinear system, the immune system is chaotic. This paper introduces chaos into the clonal selection algorithm by a novel mutation method, self-adaptive chaotic mutation (SACM). In detail, based on the logistic chaotic sequence, SACM extracts antibody's affinity and distribution to adjust the mutation scale. Compared with the clonal selection algorithm using random mutation and standard genetic algorithm, the improved clonal selection algorithm can enhance the precision and stability, and overcome prematurity effectively with a high convergence speed.