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In this paper, we proposed a new variant of CS called Novel Enhanced CS Algorithm (NECSA) to overcome these drawbacks mentioned above inspired by the cuckoos\u2019 behaviors in nature and other excellent search strategies employed in intelligent optimization algorithms. NECSA introduces several enhancement strategies, namely self-evaluation operation and modified greedy selection operation, to improve the searchability of the original CS algorithm. The former is proposed to enhance the exploration ability and ensure population diversity, and the latter is employed to enhance the exploitation ability and increase search efficiency. Besides, we introduced adaptive control parameter settings based on the fitness and iteration number to increase the convergence speed and the accuracy of the search process. The experimental results and analysis on the CEC2014 test have demonstrated the reliable performance of NECSA in comparison with the other five CS algorithm variants.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/jifs-220179","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,29]],"date-time":"2022-03-29T13:59:29Z","timestamp":1648562369000},"page":"2945-2962","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["A novel enhanced cuckoo search algorithm for global optimization"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"43","author":[{"given":"Wenguan","family":"Luo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaobing","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster (KLME), Ministry of Education & 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