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Niching Without Niching Parameters: Particle Swarm Optimization Using a Ring Topology
2010
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Niching is an important technique for multimodal optimization. Most existing niching methods require specification of certain niching parameters in order to perform well. These niching parameters, often used to inform a niching algorithm how far apart between two closest optima or the number of optima in the search space, are typically difficult to set as they are problem dependent. This paper describes a simple yet effective niching algorithm, a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm
doi:10.1109/tevc.2009.2026270
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