Premature convergence is the fatal shortcoming of traditional evolutionary programming.Based on the analysis of premature convergence of traditional evolutionary programming

a novel Multi-subgroup Competition Evolutionary Programming (MCEP) algorithm is proposed.In the algorithm

evolutions of subgroups are parallely performed with the different mutation strategies.The mutation capability of an individual is determined by the competition among subgroups.The individual

together with information

is exchanged while subgroup is reorganized.The simulations based on benchmarks confirm that this algorithm is better than classical evolutionary programming algorithm in the aspects of global optimization

convergence speed and the robustness.