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TEC
2010
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Niching Without Niching Parameters: Particle Swarm Optimization Using a Ring Topology
Niching is an important technique for multimodal optimization. Most existing niching methods require specification of certain niching parameters in order to perform well. These nic...
Xiaodong Li
GECCO
2007
Springer
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A multimodal particle swarm optimizer based on fitness Euclidean-distance ratio
One of the most critical issues that remains to be fully addressed in existing multimodal evolutionary algorithms is the difficulty in pre-specifying parameters used for estimatin...
Xiaodong Li