Figure 1.Flowchart of the CoDOA.-Realizing an Optimization Approach Inspired from Piaget's Theory on Cognitive Development

<p>The objective of this paper is to introduce an artificial intelligence based optimization<br> approach, which is inspired from Piaget’s theory on cognitive development. The approach has been<br> designed according to essential processes that an individual may experience while learning<br> something new or improving his / her knowledge. These processes are associated with the Piaget’s<br> ideas on an individual’s cognitive development. The approach expressed in this paper is a simple<br> algorithm employing swarm intelligence oriented tasks in order to overcome single-objective<br> optimization problems. For evaluating effectiveness of this early version of the algorithm, test<br> operations have been done via some benchmark functions. The obtained results show that the<br> approach / algorithm can be an alternative to the literature in terms of single-objective optimization.<br> The authors have suggested the name: Cognitive Development Optimization Algorithm (CoDOA)<br> for the related intelligent optimization approach.