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The paper presents a new meta-heuristics for solving continuous optimization problems of finding a global optimum. The algorithm is based on the behavior of a specific animal species. The main inspiration for this method was a flock of sheep, which after consuming the grass in a certain area, starts to search for new sources of food when the local sources are depleted. A special penalty function to...