facaraff/SOS: PD-SOS

The Stochastic Optimisation Software (SOS) is a research-oriented software platform for Metaheuristic Optimisation (Stochastic Optimisation). This release of SOS contains new features for the analysis of heuristic for optimisation in terms of structural bias and tendency in generating infeasible solutions. These include a new benchmark suite and dedicated packages already equipped with mechanisms allowing for tracking the internal dynamics of the candidate solutions in population-based algorithms. These Population Dynamics (PD) packages will be further extended in the future to achieve a better understanding of the working mechanism of widely used heuristics for optimisation. For further details please visit www.tinyurl.com\FabioCaraffini-SOS some relevant articles are listed below: -Structural bias in differential evolution: A preliminary study (2019) AIP Conference Proceedings, DOI: 10.1063/1.5089972 [link] -Infeasibility and structural bias in differential evolution (2019), Information Sciences, DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2019.05.019 [link] -Can Single Solution Optimisation Methods Be Structurally Biased? (2020), IEEE WCCI, DOI: 10.1109/CEC48606.2020.9185494 [link] -Can Compact Optimisation Algorithms Be Structurally Biased? (2020), PPSN 2020, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58112-1_16 [link