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For the jumping search method, the \u2018escape\u2019 operation develops the search space sufficiently and the \u2018death\u2019 operation further explores the developed space, which balances the development and exploration ability of SSA. Concerning the progressive search method, the mutation operation fully preserves the current evolutionary information and pays more attention to maintain the population diversity. Twenty-one benchmark functions are selected to test the performance of ISSA. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can improve the convergence accuracy, accelerate the convergence speed as well as maintain the population diversity. The statistical test proves that ISSA has significant advantages compared with SSA. 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