Niching chimp optimization for constraint multimodal engineering optimization problems

•Applying the Niching concept to ChOA (NChOA).•The NChOA proposes a novel constraint handling technique.•The NChOA's performance was evaluated on 37 numerical functions.•The NChOAs’ performance was tested on twelve real-world constraint problems. Two significant concerns need to be addressed to...

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