Author: Daniel Poole
Date: July 2018
Version: 1.0

FORTRAN code for neighbourhood-based speciation niching using L-SHADE, with feasible selection for constraints. Test suite is newly developed constrained multimodal functions. The reference for this code is:

D. J. Poole and C. B. Allen. "Constrained Niching Using Differential Evolution". Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2018.

It is kindly requested that any use of the code is referenced to the above paper.

Files: 
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de: main optimizer
de_config: read configuration file
MAIN: main function
niching_func_cons: constrained analytical functions
perfanal: post processing subroutine
  
Code has only been tested in following environment:

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS 64-bit
CPU: core i7 (2.20GHz)
RAM: 8GB
Language: fortran
Compiler: gfortran 4.8.4 with -O2 optimization flag

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Code is executed from the RUNDATA directory:

> cd INSTALLLOC/LSHADE_FNSDE
> make
> cd RUNDATA
> ../de.exe

Edit DE.conf file to change parameters.  Dat file contains information read by code (DO NOT EDIT UNLESS CHANGING SOURCE CODE).

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NOTE: the author takes no responsibility for the results provided by the code under the stewardship of another.

Please email bugs to d.j.poole@bristol.ac.uk

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Copyright 2018 Daniel Poole

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