摘要：The exploitation of multi-reservoir systems has always been a complex problem of water resource optimization. In this study, the differential evolution (DE) algorithm which promotes the performance of contraction and reflection operators was merged in the shuffled complex evolutionary (SCE) and SCEDE algorithm was developed to use the SCE algorithm for complex water resource problems. To investigate the created algorithm, a difficult mathematical function problem was solved as a benchmark by the SCE and SCE-DE methods. The results showed that the SCE-DE method converges more rapidly to the optimum response and are much closer to the absolute optimum. Moreover, these algorithms were used to solve the optimization problems of multi-reservoir system, and the results were compared with the absolute response of LP. The results showed that the response of objective function in the SCE-DE method differs 0.009% from that of the LP. However, the response of objective function of SCE differs 1.84% from that of the LP. In comparison to the results of other researches, the proposed algorithm has an optimum response much closer to the LP response. Hence, SCE-DE is recommended to be used to solve complex problem of water resources.
