A Novel Self-Adaptive Harmony Search Algorithm

Table 13

Dunnett’s one-tailed (>) multiple comparisons between the NSHS and other five algorithms based on the samples of solving twelve unconstrained benchmark functions with 1000 dimensions.

(I) Algorithm	(J) Algorithm	Mean difference (I − J)	Std.	Sig.
HS	NSHS	528495067.3354575 *	7295157.814	.000
IHS	NSHS	533757007.9854518 *	7295157.814	.000
HSw	NSHS	536111617.63627493 *	7295157.814	.000
DLHS	NSHS	525985111.0408457 *	7295157.814	.000
SGHS	NSHS	4198894.56625653	7295157.814	.611

∗The mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level. The test is based on observed means of the dependent variable (relative error).