This letter highlights the risk of excessive search intensification decreasing efficiency in “Multi-Point Combinatorial Optimization Method Based on Hierarchical Structure in Solution Space (HS-MCOM)”. To address this issue, “Multi-Population Combinatorial Optimization Method Based on Hierarchical Structure in Solution Space” is proposed. Numerical experiments conducted on benchmark problems validate the effectiveness of the developed method.
Watanabe et al. (Tue,) studied this question.