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Experimental Characterization of Emergent Behavior in Bio-Inspired Swarm Intelligence Algorithms

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Yoslandy Lazo *
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Broderick Crawford *
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Gino Astorga
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Felipe Cisternas-Caneo
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José Barrera-García
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Giovanni Giachetti
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Ricardo Soto
DOI:10.3390/biomimetics11080576delete
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Bio-inspired swarm metaheuristic algorithms constitute a widely used tool for solving complex optimization problems. However, the experimental characterization of their emergent behavior remains a methodological challenge. This study proposes an experimental framework for characterizing emergent behavior through swarm collective dynamics. The framework integrates complementary dynamic indicators and establishes relative diversity loss as a homogeneous criterion for defining equivalent comparison states across different search processes. The framework was evaluated using the Reptile Search Algorithm (RSA) and Draco Lizard Optimizer (DLO) as case studies, with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) serving as a reference algorithm. The results showed that swarm collective dynamics were associated with both the mathematical properties of the search landscape and the search mechanisms of each metaheuristic. Furthermore, relative diversity loss enabled the comparison of different metaheuristics within a common reference framework. In RSA, swarm reorganization occurred during the first iterations. DLO exhibited a more gradual evolution, whereas PSO showed an intermediate behavior between both dynamics. The proposed experimental framework provides a methodological basis for the experimental characterization of emergent behavior in swarm metaheuristics.
Keywords:
bio-inspired optimization
swarm metaheuristics
emergent behavior

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