对生物地理学优化算法(biogeography—based optimization,BBO)的研究现状进行了总结,并介绍了一些最新的研究进展。从BBO算法提出的背景出发,讨论了算法的主要思想、算法原理以及算法步骤。论述了该算法的研究进展,包括BBO算法的改进、算法的收敛性分析、BBO算法与其他算法的融合以及BBO算法在优化领域的典型应用,对BBO算法有待研究的问题做了总结。
The research progress of biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is summarized, and some recent research progress are described. Firstly, the main idea of BBO is discussed from the background of it, the main idea, theory and steps of the algorithm are discussed. Secondly, the progress of this algorithm is summarized, which are related to the improvement of BBO algorithm, the con- vergence analysis of BBO algorithm, the merging mechanism to other heuristic optimization algorithms and several typical application areas of BBO are surveyed respectively. Finally, the problem to be studied of BBO is prospected.