Nonlinear Inertia Weighted Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization for Solving Global Optimization Problem

Table 4

value, significant at 0.05 level of significance by two tailed tests using Table 2. The significance of NIWTLBO compares with PSO, ABC, DE, and TLBO.

Number	Function	PSO	ABC	DE	TLBO	Number	Function	PSO	ABC	DE	TLBO
	Sphere	+	+	+	+		Bohachevsky2	NA	NA	NA	NA
	SumSquares	+	+	+	+		Bohachevsky3	NA	+	NA	NA
	Tablet	+	+	+	+		Six-Hump Camel Back	NA	NA	NA	NA
	Quartic	+	+	+	⋅		Branin	NA	NA	NA	NA
	Schwefel 1.2	+	+	+	+		Goldstein-Price	NA	NA	NA	NA
	Schwefel 2.22	+	+	+	+		Ackley	+	+	+	+
	Schwefel 2.21	+	+	+	+		Rastrigin	+	+	+	+
	Zakharov	+	+	+	+		Griewank	+	+	NA	NA
	Rosenbrock	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅		Schwefel 2.26	+	+	+	+
	Schaffer	NA	NA	NA	NA		Multimod	+	+	NA	NA
	Dropwave	NA	NA	NA	NA		Noncontinuous Rastrigin	+	+	+	+
	Bohachevsky1	NA	NA	NA	NA		Weierstrass	+	+	+	NA

“+” indicates that value is significant, “⋅” indicates that value is not statistically significant, and “NA” stands for not applicable.