TY - RPRT T1 - Benchmark Functions for CEC'2013 Special Session and Competition on Niching Methods for Multimodal Function Optimization' Y1 - 2013 A1 - Xiaodong Li A1 - Andries Engelbrecht A1 - M. G. Epitropakis PB - Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Group, RMIT University CY - Melbourne, Australia UR - http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~xiaodong/cec13-niching/competition/ ER - TY - CONF T1 - Balancing the exploration and exploitation capabilities of the Differential Evolution Algorithm T2 - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2008. CEC 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence) Y1 - 2008 A1 - M. G. Epitropakis A1 - V. P. Plagianakos A1 - M. N. Vrahatis KW - differential evolution algorithm KW - evolutionary computation KW - optimization KW - search problems KW - self-balancing hybrid mutation operator AB - The hybridization and composition of different Evolutionary Algorithms to improve the quality of the solutions and to accelerate execution is a common research practice. In this paper we propose a hybrid approach that combines differential evolution mutation operators in an attempt to balance their exploration and exploitation capabilities. Additionally, a self-balancing hybrid mutation operator is presented, which favors the exploration of the search space during the first phase of the optimization, while later opts for the exploitation to aid convergence to the optimum. Extensive experimental results indicate that the proposed approaches effectively enhance DEpsilas ability to accurately locate solutions in the search space. JF - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2008. CEC 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence) CY - Hong Kong ER -