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The electromagnetism-like method (EM) is a meta-heuristic algorithm utilizing an attraction-repulsion mechanism to move sample points towards optimality in continuous optimization problems. Traditionally, the EM uses two algorithms known as the original and revised EMs. This paper presents a novel hybrid approach for EM by employing a well-known local search, called Solis and Wets. To show the performance of our proposed hybrid EM, a number of experiments are carried out on a set of well-known test problems and the related results are compared with two forgoing algorithms.
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Gol Alikhani, M., Javadian, N. & Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, R. A novel hybrid approach combining electromagnetism-like method with Solis and Wets local search for continuous optimization problems. J Glob Optim 44, 227–234 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10898-008-9320-z
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