Abstract
Surrogate models have shown to be effective in assisting metaheuristic algorithms for solving computationally expensive complex optimization problems. The effectiveness of existing surrogate-assisted metaheuristic algorithms, however, has only been verified on low-dimensional optimization problems. In this paper, a surrogate-assisted cooperative swarm optimization algorithm is proposed, in which a surrogate-assisted particle swarm optimization algorithm and a surrogate-assisted social learning based particle swarm optimization algorithm cooperatively search for the global optimum. The cooperation between the particle swarm optimization and the social learning based particle swarm optimization consists of two aspects. First, they share promising solutions evaluated by the real fitness function. Second, the social learning based particle swarm optimization focuses on exploration while the particle swarm optimization concentrates on local search. Empirical studies on six 50-dimensional and six 100-dimensional benchmark problems demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is able to find high-quality solutions for high-dimensional problems on a limited computational budget.