
This book offers the first comprehensive taxonomy for multimodal optimization algorithms, work with its root in topics such as niching, parallel evolutionary algorithms, and global optimization. The author explains niching in evolutionary algorithms and its benefits; he examines...

Introduction: Towards Multimodal Optimization.- Experimentation in Evolutionary Computation.- Groundwork for Niching.- Nearest-Better Clustering.- Niching Methods and Multimodal Optimization Performance.- Nearest-Better Based Niching.