Five Phases Algorithm

Five Phase Algorithm (FPA) is inspired by the Five Phase Theory and is simple and effective.

A new meta-heuristic algorithm named the five phases algorithm (FPA) is presented. The proposed method is inspired by the five phases theory in traditional Chinese thought. FPA updates agents based on the generating and overcoming strategy as well as learning strategy from the agent with the same label. FPA has a simple structure but excellent performance. It also does not have any predefined control parameters, only two general parameters including population size and terminal condition are required. The proposed five phases algorithm is simple and effective.