
74 Cuckoo Search Algorithm
4.2.6 Cuckoo search with adaptive parameters
The parameters p
a
, λ, and α are very critical for the performance of CS; see equation 4.1.
In [8], the three aforementioned parameters are adapted throughout the optimization
iteration to achieve better performance. The main drawback is using constant values for
p
a
, and λ appears in the number of iterations to find an optimal solution. If the value
of p
a
is small and the value of α is large, the performance of the algorithm will be poor
and leads to considerable increase in number of iterations. If the value of p
a
is large and
the value of α is small, the speed of convergence is