A surrogate-assisted differential evolution algorithm with dynamic parameters selection for solving expensive optimization problems

In this paper, a surrogate-assisted differential evolution (DE) algorithm is proposed to solve the computationally expensive optimization problems. In it, the Kriging model is used to approximate the objective function, while DE employs a mechanism to dynamically select the best performing combinations of parameters (amplification factor, crossover rate and population size). The performance of the algorithm is tested on the WCCI2014 competition on expensive single objective optimization problems. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has the ability to obtain good solutions.