Wound Healing Based Optimization – Vision and Framework

The engineering society is looking towards nature – the greatest developer & teacher of the mankind, for finding solutions to its day-to-day problems. Like many concepts proposed till date, the ideas of which have been taken from none other than the nature, we propose another optimization technique based on a biological phenomenon – the complex but an advanced and well organized process of wound healing. An extensive study, of wound healing processes and the factors affecting it, shows that the process is a highly organized, efficient and robust one. The process of wound healing, which involves synthesis, production, degradation, necrosis, etc., is handled by nature in a wonderful way. This flawless working of nature and the many types of models proposed till date for the process are an inspiration for us to develop the process into an optimization technique for solving our practical problems. Thus, in this work, we envision and implement a new optimization technique based on wound healing. We term it as Wound Healing Based Optimization (WHO). Fairly good results have been obtained by applying the proposed algorithm onto the sphere problem. However, it is also observed that there is a scope for improvement and we are working towards a more robust and generalized algorithm. Our future research agenda includes the same.