Improving the Performance of Whale Optimization Algorithm through OpenCL-Based FPGA Accelerator

Algorithm 1

1	Generate initial population
2	Evaluate the fitness of each search agent
3	= the best search agent
4	whiledo
5	for each search agent do
6	Update and
7	ifthen
8	ifthen
9	Update the position of the current search agent by equation (2)
10	else ifthen
11	Select a random search agent ()
12	Update the position of the current search agent by equation (9)
13	end if
14	else ifthen
15	Update the position of the current search agent by equation (6)
16	end if
17	end for
18	Amend search agents which go beyond the search space
19	Calculate the fitness of each search agent
20	Replace with a better solution (if found)
21
22	end while
23	return