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In this paper, we introduce Lamarckian learning theory into the Clonal Selection Algorithm and propose a sort of Lamarckian Clonal Selection Algorithm, termed as LCSA. The major aim is to utilize effectively the information of each individual to reinforce the exploitation with the help of Lamarckian local search. Recombination operator and tournament selection operator are incorporated into LCSA to further enhance the ability of global exploration. We compare LCSA with the Clonal Selection Algorithm in solving twenty benchmark problems to evaluate the performance of LCSA. The results demonstrate that the Lamarckian local search makes LCSA more effective and efficient in solving numerical optimization problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The biological immune system is a highly parallel and distributed adaptive system. The information processing abilities of the immune system provide important insights into the field of computation. Based on immunodominance in the biological immune system and the clonal selection mechanism, a novel data mining method, Immune Dominance Clonal Multiobjective Clustering algorithm (IDCMC), is presented. The algorithm divides an individual population into three sub-populations according to three different measurements, and adopts different evolution and selection strategies for each sub-population. The update of each sub-population, however, is not carried out in isolation. The periodic combination operation of the analysis of the three sub-populations represents considerable advantages in its global search ability. The clustering task is a multiobjective optimization problem, which is more robust with respect to the variety of cluster structures of different datasets than a single-objective clustering algorithm. In addition, the new algorithm can determine the number of clusters automatically, which should identify the most promising clustering solutions in the candidate set. The experimental results, using artificial datasets with different manifold structure and handwritten digit datasets, show that the IDCMC outperforms the PESA-II-based clustering method, the genetic algorithm-based clustering technique and the original K-Means algorithm in solving most of the problems tested. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]