Ecogeography-Based Optimization: Enhanced by Ecogeographic Barriers and Differentiations

Ecogeography-based optimization (EBO) is one of the most significant upgrades of BBO, which uses local topologies as the Local-BBO, and further defines two novel migration operators, named local migration and global migration, which borrow ideas from the migration models of ecogeography to enrich information sharing among the solutions. This chapter introduces the EBO algorithm in detail and shows its significant improvement over the basic BBO and Local-BBO in computational experiments.