Battle Royale Optimizer for solving binary optimization problems

Abstract

Battle Royale Optimizer (BRO) is a recently proposed metaheuristic optimization algorithm used only in continuous problem spaces. The BinBRO is a binary version of BRO. The BinBRO algorithm employs a differential expression, which utilizes a dissimilarity measure between binary vectors instead of a vector subtraction operator, used in the original BRO algorithm to find the nearest neighbor. To evaluate BinBRO, we applied it to two popular benchmark datasets: the uncapacitated facility location problem (UFLP) and the maximum-cut (Max-Cut) graph problems from OR-Library. An open-source MATLAB implementation of BinBRO is available on CodeOcean and GitHub websites.