%0 Journal Article %T Improved teaching learning based optimization for global function optimization %A Suresh Chandra Satapathy %A Anima Naik %J Decision Science Letters %D 2013 %I Growing Science %R 10.5267/j.dsl.2012.10.005 %X Teaching¨CLearning-Based Optimization (TLBO) is recently being used as a new, reliable, accurate and robust optimization technique scheme for global optimization over continuous spaces. This paper presents an improved variant of TLBO algorithm, called Improved Teaching¨CLearning-Based Optimization (ITLBO). A performance comparison of the proposed method is provided against the original TLBO and some other algorithms. The improved TLBO algorithm shows a marked improvement in performance over the traditional TLBO on several benchmark optimization problems. %K Optimization technique %K TLBO %K Convergence %K Performance %U http://www.growingscience.com/dsl/Vol2/dsl_2013_4.pdf