| Article ID: | iaor20002310 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Start Page Number: | 645 |
| End Page Number: | 663 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1999 |
| Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
| Authors: | Zhang Ji-Hui, Xu Xin-He |
| Keywords: | optimization |
A novel evolutionary programming algorithm, which not only has a rapid convergence rate but also maintains the diversity of the population so as to escape from local optima, is proposed in this paper. In addition, a multi-modal test function is presented and is used to indicate the efficiency of this algorithm. Several application examples are given to show its usefulness.