Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (51825502, 51775216)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (51721092)
Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2018CFA078)
Article History
Received: 9 July 2018
Accepted: 18 December 2018
First Online: 5 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: We declare that we have no financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that can inappropriately influence our work, there is no professional or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service and/or company that could be construed as influencing the position presented in, or the review of, the manuscript entitled “Whale swarm algorithm with the mechanism of identifying and escaping from extreme points for multimodal function optimization.”