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In this paper, we focus on one of the Meta-Heuristics Differential Evolution (DE) and propose an adaptive parameter adjustment method to improve its search performance and usability. First, we define a scalar index based on numerical analysis according which diversification and intensification of search in DE can be executed. Moreover, we set an ideal target schedule for the index to reach a high...