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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing Volume 2011, Article ID 210918, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2011/210918 Research Article Design of Fixed and Ladder Mutation Factor-Based Clonal Selection Algorithm for Solving Unimodal and Multimodal Functions Suresh Chittineni,1 A. N. S. Pradeep,1 Dinesh Godavarthi,1 Suresh Chandra Satapathy,1 S. Mohan Krishna,2 and P. V. G. D. Prasad Reddy3 1Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India 2 Gitam University, Visakhapatnam, India 3 Andhra University Engineering College, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India Correspondence should be addressed to Suresh Chandra Satapathy, sureshsatapathy@ Received 6 May 2011; Accepted 14 July 2011 Academic Editor: Maoguo Gong Copyright © 2011 Suresh Chittineni et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Clonal selection algorithms (CSAs) is a special class of immune algorithms (IA), inspired by the clonal selection principle of the human immune system. To improve the algorithm’s ability to perform better, this CSA has been modified by implementing two new concepts called fixed mutation factor and ladder mutation factor. Fixed mutation factor maintains a constant factor throughout the process, where as ladder mutation factor changes adaptively based on the affinity of antibodies. This paper compared the conventional CLONALG, with the two proposed approaches and tested on several standard benchmark functions. Experimental results empirically show that the proposed methods lad