Work place: Faculty of Computers & Informatics, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, 41511, Egypt
E-mail: ahmedhegazy281@yahoo.com
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Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Computational Learning Theory, Data Mining, Data Structures and Algorithms
Biography
Ahmed Elsayed Hegazy was born in Ismailia, Egypt. He is currently a teaching Assistant in Faculty of Computer Science & informatics Suez Canal University. He received his First degree in Information system, Faculty of Computer Science & informatics Suez Canal University. He is currently a M.S. Student of the same institution. His research interests: Machine learning, data mining, intelligent Bioinformatics and metaheuristic optimization.
By Ah. E. Hegazy M. A. Makhlouf Gh. S. El-Tawel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2018.07.04, Pub. Date: 8 Jul. 2018
Whale optimization algorithm is a newly proposed bio-inspired optimization technique introduced in 2016 which imitates the hunting demeanor of hump-back whales. In this paper, to enhance solution accuracy, reliability and convergence speed, we have introduced some modifications on the basic WOA structure. First, a new control parameter, inertia weight, is proposed to tune the impact on the present best solution, and an improved whale optimization algorithm (IWOA) is obtained. Second, we assess IWOA with various transfer functions to convert continuous solutions to binary ones. The pro-posed algorithm incorporated with the K-nearest neighbor classifier as a feature selection method for identifying feature subset that enhancing the classification accuracy and limiting the size of selected features. The proposed algorithm was compared with binary versions of the basic whale optimization algorithm, particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, antlion optimizer and grey wolf optimizer on 27 common UCI datasets. Optimization results demonstrate that the proposed IWOA not only significantly enhances the basic whale optimization algorithm but also performs much superior to the other algorithms.
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