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From: Marton Erno Balazs <mbalazs@peritus.com>
Subject: multiple global optima
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I think that one of the potential advantages of evolutionalry algorithms
is the ability of finding several (possibly all) the global optima for
an optimization problem (I suspect that I'm not the first one to say 
this). Houwever I have always seen examples where such algorithms
converged to one of the several optima. 

Can anyone give me ideas on how to do this kind of "parallel" seach, for
instance in the case of function optimization?

Any input will be highly appreciated.

Marton E. Balazs
