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© 2020, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature. With the development of science and technology and the need for multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), the optimization problem to be solved becomes extremely complex. The theoretically accurate and optimal solutions are often difficult to obtain. Therefore, meta-heuristic algorithms based on multi-point search have received extensive attention. The flower pollination algorithm (FPA) is a new swarm intelligence meta-heuristic algorithm, which can effectively control the balance between global search and local search through a handover probability, and gradually attracts the attention of researchers. However, the algorithm still has problems that are common to optimization algorithms. For example, the global search operation guided by the optimal solution is easy to lead the algorithm into local optimum, and the vector-guided search process is not suitable for solving some problems in discrete space. Moreover, the algorithm does not consider dynamic multi-criteria decision problems well. Aiming at these problems, the design strategy of hybrid flower pollination algorithm for virtual network embedding problem is discussed. Combining the advantages of the genetic algorithm and FPA, the algorithm is optimized for the characteristics of discrete optimization problems. The cross-operation is used to replace the cross-pollination operation to complete the global search and replace the mutation operation with self-pollination operation to enhance the ability of local search. Moreover, a life cycle mechanism is introduced as a complement to the traditional fitness-based selection strategy to avoid premature convergence. A chaos optimization strategy is introduced to replace the random sequence-guided crossover process to strengthen the global search capability and reduce the probability of producing invalid individuals. In addition, a two-layer BP neural network is introduced to replace the traditional objective function to strengthen the dynamic MCDM ability. Simulation results show that the proposed method has good performance in link load balancing, revenue–cost ratio, VN requests acceptance ratio, mapping average quotation, average time delay, average packet loss rate, and the average running time of the algorithm.
Author(s): Zhang P, Liu F, Aujla GS, Vashisht S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Neural Computing and Applications
Year: 2021
Volume: 33
Pages: 10673-10684
Print publication date: 01/09/2021
Online publication date: 04/04/2020
Acceptance date: 04/03/2020
ISSN (print): 0941-0643
ISSN (electronic): 1433-3058
Publisher: Springer Nature
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-04827-5
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-020-04827-5
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