Parameter-Free Deterministic Global Search with Simplified Central Force Optimization

This note describes a simplified parameter-free implementation of Central Force Optimization for use in deterministic multidimensional search and optimization. The user supplies only the objective function to be maximized, nothing more. The algorithm's performance is tested against a widely used suite of twenty three benchmark functions and compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms. CFO performs very well.

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