Differential evolution with competitive setting of control parameters

This paper is focused on the adaptation of control parameters in differential evolution. Competition of various control parameter settings was proposed in order to ensure self-adaptation of parameter values in the search process. Several variants of such algorithm were tested on six functions at four levels of the search-space dimension. The competitive variants of differential evolution have proved to be more reliable and less time-consuming than the standard differential evolution. The competitive variants have also outperformed other tested algorithms in their reliability and convergence rate.