initialization.m

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% After use, please refer to the main paper:
% Iman Ahmadianfar, Ali Asghar Heidari,Amir H Gandomi,Xuefeng Chu,Huiling Chen,  
% RUN Beyond the Metaphor: An Efficient Optimization Algorithm Based on Runge Kutta Method
% Expert Systems With Applications, 2021, 115079, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115079 (Q1, 5-Year Impact Factor: 5.448, H-INDEX: 184)
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% This function initialize the first population of search agents
function X=initialization(nP,dim,ub,lb)

Boundary_no= size(ub,2); % numnber of boundaries

% If the boundaries of all variables are equal and user enter a signle
% number for both ub and lb
if Boundary_no==1
    X=rand(nP,dim).*(ub-lb)+lb;
end

% If each variable has a different lb and ub
if Boundary_no>1
    for i=1:dim
        ub_i=ub(i);
        lb_i=lb(i);
        X(:,i)=rand(nP,1).*(ub_i-lb_i)+lb_i;
    end
end