Seeking multiple solutions: An updated survey on niching methods and their applications

X Li, MG Epitropakis, K Deb… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multimodal optimization (MMO) aiming to locate multiple optimal (or near-optimal) solutions
in a single simulation run has practical relevance to problem solving across many fields …

Real-parameter evolutionary multimodal optimization—A survey of the state-of-the-art

S Das, S Maity, BY Qu, PN Suganthan - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Multimodal optimization amounts to finding multiple global and local optima (as opposed to
a single solution) of a function, so that the user can have a better knowledge about different …

A survey on evolutionary computation for complex continuous optimization

ZH Zhan, L Shi, KC Tan, J Zhang - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022 - Springer
Complex continuous optimization problems widely exist nowadays due to the fast
development of the economy and society. Moreover, the technologies like Internet of things …

Automatic niching differential evolution with contour prediction approach for multimodal optimization problems

ZJ Wang, ZH Zhan, Y Lin, WJ Yu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Niching techniques have been widely incorporated into evolutionary algorithms (EAs) for
solving multimodal optimization problems (MMOPs). However, most of the existing niching …

Adaptive multimodal continuous ant colony optimization

Q Yang, WN Chen, Z Yu, T Gu, Y Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Seeking multiple optima simultaneously, which multimodal optimization aims at, has
attracted increasing attention but remains challenging. Taking advantage of ant colony …

Dual-surrogate-assisted cooperative particle swarm optimization for expensive multimodal problems

X Ji, Y Zhang, D Gong, X Sun - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various real-world applications can be classified as expensive multimodal optimization
problems. When surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) are employed to tackle …

A distance-based locally informed particle swarm model for multimodal optimization

BY Qu, PN Suganthan, S Das - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multimodal optimization amounts to finding multiple global and local optima (as opposed to
a single solution) of a function, so that the user can have a better knowledge about different …

Differential evolution with neighborhood mutation for multimodal optimization

BY Qu, PN Suganthan, JJ Liang - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a neighborhood mutation strategy is proposed and integrated with various
niching differential evolution (DE) algorithms to solve multimodal optimization problems …

Distributed individuals for multiple peaks: A novel differential evolution for multimodal optimization problems

ZG Chen, ZH Zhan, H Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Locating more peaks and refining the solution accuracy on the found peaks are two
challenging issues in solving multimodal optimization problems (MMOPs). To deal with …

Multimodal estimation of distribution algorithms

Q Yang, WN Chen, Y Li, CLP Chen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Taking the advantage of estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) in preserving high
diversity, this paper proposes a multimodal EDA. Integrated with clustering strategies for …