http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/240349 Feed for thread: genetic algorithm niching methods? en-us &copy;1994-2012 by MathWorks, Inc. webmaster@mathworks.com MATLAB Central Newsreader http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.mathworks.com/images/membrane_icon.gif Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:20:19 -0500 http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/240349#614744 Dave Brackett Are there any niching methods available in Matlab for use with the genetic algorithm optimiser? Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:12:01 -0500 http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/240349#616218 Rakesh Kumar "Dave Brackett" &lt;davebrackett@hotmail.com&gt; wrote in message &lt;gh64j3$rjr$1@fred.mathworks.com&gt;...<br> &gt; Are there any niching methods available in Matlab for use with the genetic algorithm optimiser?<br> <br> If you are using the multi-objective GA function (GAMULTIOBJ) it has a crowding model implementation (see the option DistanceMeasureFcn) that can be useful. You can use this function to optimize one or more objectives (no nonlinear constraint support yet).<br> <br> In general, I like crowding model over niching because you don't have to know 'niche count'. <br> <br> <br> Hope that helps!<br> Rakesh