FORTRAN code for neighbourhood-based speciation niching using L-SHADE

• Author: Daniel Poole
• Date: July 2018
• Version: 1.0

Summary and reference

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.

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

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

Please email bugs to [email protected]

Usage

Code is executed from the RUNDATA directory:

cd <code directory>/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).

Files:

Language of the code is FORTRAN.

• de: main optimizer
• de_config: read configuration file
• MAIN: main function
• niching_func_cons: constrained anaytical functions
• perfanal: post processing subroutine

Code has been tested in following environment:

Linux

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

Windows

• OS: Windows 7 64-bit
• CPU: core i7 (3.80GHz)
• RAM: 16GB
• Language: fortran
• Compiler: GNU Fortran MinGW-w64 -O2 optimization flag

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