@article{Alzaqebah2023, 
author = {Malek Alzaqebah and Mutasem K. Alsmadi and Sana Jawarneh and Jehad Saad Alqurni and Mohammed Tayfour and Ibrahim Almarashdeh and Rami Mustafa A. Mohammad and Fahad A. Alghamdi and Nahier Aldhafferi and Abdullah Alqahtani and Khalid A. Alissa and Bashar A. Aldeeb and Usama A. Badawi and Maram Alwohaibi and Hayat Alfagham},
title = {Improved Whale Optimization with Local-Search Method for Feature Selection},
year = {2023},
journal = {Computers, Materials & Continua},
volume = {75},
number = {1},
pages = {1371-1389},
keywords = {Optimization, whale optimization algorithm, great deluge algorithm, feature selection and classification},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.32604/cmc.2023.033509},
doi = {10.32604/cmc.2023.033509},
abstract = {Various feature selection algorithms are usually employed to improve classification models’ overall performance. Optimization algorithms typically accompany such algorithms to select the optimal set of features. Among the most currently attractive trends within optimization algorithms are hybrid metaheuristics. The present paper presents two Stages of Local Search models for feature selection based on WOA (Whale Optimization Algorithm) and Great Deluge (GD). GD Algorithm is integrated with the WOA algorithm to improve exploitation by identifying the most promising regions during the search. Another version is employed using the best solution found by the WOA algorithm and exploited by the GD algorithm. In addition, disruptive selection (DS) is employed to select the solutions from the population for local search. DS is chosen to maintain the diversity of the population via enhancing low and high-quality solutions. Fifteen (15) standard benchmark datasets provided by the University of California Irvine (UCI) repository were used in evaluating the proposed approaches’ performance. Next, a comparison was made with four population-based algorithms as wrapper feature selection methods from the literature. The proposed techniques have proved their efficiency in enhancing classification accuracy compared to other wrapper methods. Hence, the WOA can search effectively in the feature space and choose the most relevant attributes for classification tasks.}
}