Solving the Multisensor Resource Scheduling Problem for Missile Early Warning by a Hybrid Discrete Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

Abstract

Aiming at the problem of multisensor resource scheduling in missile early warning operation, a scheduling decomposition strategy for missile early warning tasks under cooperative detection is proposed. Taking the detection benefit factor, target threat factor, and handover factor as the fitness function, we establish a sensor-subtask assignment (SSA) model and propose a hybrid discrete artificial bee colony (HDABC) algorithm to solve the optimal solution of the SSA model. The HDABC algorithm has the following improvements: in the initialization stage, a sensor-subtask-based coding method is designed to reduce the solution dimension, and the heuristic rules are used to obtain excellent populations to improve the convergence speed; in the employed bee and onlooker bee stage, a food source update strategy based on discrete differential mutation (DDM) operation is proposed to improve the searchability of the algorithm, and a sorting-based adaptive probability (SAP) selection method is applied to enhance the global search and local optimization capacities. Simulation experiments were carried out in operation scenarios of different scales. Experimental results showed that the proposed HDABC algorithm can obtain the optimal scheduling schemes and had a better solving performance when solving the SSA model, especially in the medium-scale and large-scale operation scenarios.