Vol.:(0123456789)
The Journal of Supercomputing
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-022-04959-6
1 3
Dung beetle optimizer: anew meta‑heuristic algorithm
forglobal optimization
JiankaiXue
1,2
· BoShen
1,2
Accepted: 16 November 2022
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
2022
Abstract
In this paper, a novel population-based technique called dung beetle optimizer
(DBO) algorithm is presented, which is inspired by the ball-rolling, dancing, forag-
ing, stealing, and reproduction behaviors of dung beetles. The newly proposed DBO
algorithm takes into account both the global exploration and the local exploitation,
thereby having the characteristics of the fast convergence rate and the satisfactory
solution accuracy. A series of well-known mathematical test functions (including
both 23 benchmark functions and 29 CEC-BC-2017 test functions) are employed to
evaluate the search capability of the DBO algorithm. From the simulation results, it
is observed that the DBO algorithm presents substantially competitive performance
with the state-of-the-art optimization approaches in terms of the convergence rate,
solution accuracy, and stability. In addition, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and the
Friedman test are used to evaluate the experimental results of the algorithms, which
proves the superiority of the DBO algorithm against other currently popular optimi-
zation techniques. In order to further illustrate the practical application potential, the
DBO algorithm is successfully applied in three engineering design problems. The
experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DBO algorithm can effectively
deal with real-world application problems.
Keywords Convergence rate· Dung beetle optimizer (DBO)· Engineering
applications· Particle swarm optimization (PSO)· Swarm intelligence
* Bo Shen
bo.shen@dhu.edu.cn
1
College ofInformation Science andTechnology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China
2
Engineering Research Center ofDigitalized Textile andFashion Technology, Ministry
ofEducation, Shanghai, China