Chameleon Swarm Algorithm: A bio-inspired optimizer for solving engineering design problems

•Chameleon Swarm Algorithm (CSA) is benchmarked on 67 benchmark functions.•The exploitation ability of CSA is affirmed by the results on unimodal functions.•The results of CSA on multimodal functions show the exploration ability of CSA.•The results of CSA on composite functions prove the reliability...

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