A Novel Optimization Algorithm Leveraging a Three-Dimensional Approach of Periscopic, Pheromonic and Fractal Search

This paper focuses on a new algorithm for solving optimization problems using the nature of food search behaviour of caterpillars. The paper describes how the periscopic, pheromonic and fractal search properties analogous to the caterpillars, can aid in designing a new optimization algorithm. The performance characteristics of the new method is compared using 26 standard test functions and the area under the curve of the fitness evaluations is used to validate and compare the proposed algorithms against existing related works. The proposed algorithm is found to be efficient when compared with the existing methods. The proposed algorithm is then tested on a real world problem to remove signal noise from eye gaze data, effectively.