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Successful Restaurateur Algorithm (SRA) is an innovative optimization method inspired by restaurant business management principles. Unlike traditional approaches, SRA does not discard weak solutions, but improves them by combining with elements of successful ones. The algorithm shows competitive results and offers a fresh perspective on balancing exploration and exploitation in optimization problems.

Imagine a restaurant owner who is constantly striving to improve the menu to increase the restaurant's popularity and attract new customers. Instead of completely eliminating unpopular dishes, our restaurant owner takes a more subtle approach - identifying the least popular item and then carefully mixing it with elements from the most successful dishes. Sometimes conservative changes are made, and sometimes bold new ingredients are added. The goal is always the same: to turn the weakest offering into something that can become a new menu favorite for restaurant customers.

This culinary metaphor forms the basis of SRA. Unlike traditional evolutionary algorithms, which often completely discard poor performers, SRA focuses on rehabilitating poor performers by pairing them with successful elements. This approach preserves diversity in the solution space while steadily improving the overall quality of the population.


In this article, I will cover the basic mechanics of SRA, analyze its implementation, and how parameters like "temperature" and "intensity of cooking experiments" control the balance between exploitation and exploration. I will also share benchmark results comparing SRA to other well-known algorithms in the league table on various test functions.


Author: Andrey Dik

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