Research Article

MEEF: A Minimum-Elimination-Escape Function Method for Multimodal Optimization Problems

Table 3

Results obtained by the MEEF method with parameter .

Initial point Obtained solution Function value FE

2 (2, 3) (−0.089842002528404, 0.712656392613011) −1.031628453489876 82

2 (2, 2) (3.141592041900419, 2.275001484633560) 0.397887357732550 24

2 (2, 3) (0.000000079909768, −1.000000070623033) 3.000000000004941 121

2 (0.5, 0.5) (0, 0.177012710045332) −2.000000000000000 9

2 (2, 2) (0.999999975527650, 0.999999946318032) 6.101167528810935 39

2 (2, 2) (0.971130213666137, 0.706031037637329) 1.699019537462052 55

2 (2, 2) (0.255229333496938, −0.434186565450557) 4.490860908315311 72

2 (−5, −5) (−7.708313676331958, −0.800321082369111) −186.7309088310150 117

2 (−5, −5) (−1.425128417571605, −0.800321090609564) −186.7309088310209 153

2 (−5, −5) (−1.425128416153344, −0.800321091763070) −186.7309088310196 123

4 (5, , 5) (4.000037215924857, 4.000133145585854, −10.153199679054000 175
4.000037215925353, 4.000133145585680)

4 (5, , 5) (4.000572886900829, 4.000689336118056, −10.402940566818309 220
3.999489677757608, 3.999606130253441)

4 (5, , 5) (4.000746305174065, 4.000589588385656, −10.536409815258031 200
3.999664311018934, 3.999511307520479)

6 (−5, , −5) (0.999999975220856, 1.000000087429692, 5.214584135632792 63
1.000000087650645, 1.000000087650650,
1.000000087650650, 1.000000087666372)

6 (−5, , −5) (0.999999825677932, 1.000021645871587, 8.099295276500388 435
1.000005196859773, 1.000037076494750,
0.999975987700201, 1.000005012447259)

6 (−5, , −5) (1.000000043566668, 0.999999279798989, 8.329925614010338 84
0.999999684929615, 0.999999795460065,
0.999999641721513, 1.000000155571707)
30 (−5, , −5) (1.000000, , 1.000000) 7.853766183846135 403

30 (400, , 400) (420.96874, , 420.96874) −12569.48661817255 186

30 (2, , 2) (0, , 0) 0 93

30 (−50, , −50) (−2.903534, …, −2.903534) −1174.984119718874 496