United-Based Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for Compensatory Neural Fuzzy Systems.

This paper proposes a united-based imperialist competitive algorithm (UICA) for compensatory neural fuzzy systems. The original imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) comprises numerous empires in the population, and each empire comprises one imperialist and some colonies. Each country represents a feasible solution in the empire, and the more favorable solutions become imperialists, taking over less favorable solutions (i.e., colonies). In the ICA, each colony moves toward its relevant imperialist according to an assimilation policy. This paper proposes a UICA that focuses on this assimilation policy to explore the characteristics of the colonies. The assimilation policy consists of three major parts in this paper. In the first part, a colony searches for the best previous position of the colony. In the second part, the colony faces the best-so-far imperialist. In the third part, the colony moves toward the corresponding imperialist of the colony. The proposed UICA was applied to nonlinear system problems, and the experimental results indicated that the proposed UICA is effective. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]