Research Article
The Expanded Invasive Weed Optimization Metaheuristic for Solving Continuous and Discrete Optimization Problems
Table 1
Main differences between IWO and exIWO.
| Component of the algorithm | IWO | exIWO |
| Initialization of a population | Random | Random or greedy | Spatial dispersal | Dispersing | Spreading, dispersing, and rolling down | Competitive exclusion | Global | Global, offspring-based, or family-based |
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