Political optimizer with interpolation strategy for global optimization

• Aijun Zhu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Electronic Engineering and Automation, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, P.R. China, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America, School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, P.R. China, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Automatic Detecting Technology and Instruments, Guilin, P.R. China

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• Zhanqi Gu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Electronic Engineering and Automation, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, P.R. China

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• Cong Hu ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  * E-mail: 46518438@qq.com (CH); junhao@guet.edu.cn (JN)

  Affiliation School of Electronic Engineering and Automation, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, P.R. China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8035-7525

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• Junhao Niu ,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: 46518438@qq.com (CH); junhao@guet.edu.cn (JN)

  Affiliation School of Electronic Engineering and Automation, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, P.R. China

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• Chuanpei Xu,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Electronic Engineering and Automation, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, P.R. China

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• Zhi Li

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations School of Electronic Engineering and Automation, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, P.R. China, School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, P.R. China, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Automatic Detecting Technology and Instruments, Guilin, P.R. China, Guilin University of Aerospace Technology, Guilin, P.R. China

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