Research Article

Modified Biogeography-Based Optimization with Local Search Mechanism

Table 5

Scalability study at Dim = 10, 50, 100, and 200 a ter Dim * 10,000 NFFEs for standard functions f1–f13.

MLBBODEBBODE/BBOaBBOmDE
Mean (std)Mean (std)Mean (std)Mean (std)Mean (std)

dim  = 10
 f1 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f2 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f3 ( ) ( ) ( )+
 f4 ( ) ( )+ ( )
 f5 ( ) ( ) ( )+
 f6 ( ) ( ) ( )~
 f7 ( ) ( ) ( )~
 f8 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f9 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f10 ( ) ( ) ( )+
 f11 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f12 ( ) ( ) ( )+
 f13 ( ) ( ) ( )+
dim = 50
 f1 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f2 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f3 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f4 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f5 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f6 ( ) ( )+ ( )~
 f7 ( ) ( )+ ( )
 f8 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f9 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f10 ( ) ( ) ( )+
 f11 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f12 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f13 ( ) ( ) ( )+
dim  = 100
 f1 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f2 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f3 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f4 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f5 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f6 ( ) ( )+ ( )~
 f7 ( ) ( )+ ( )-
 f8 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f9 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f10 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f11 ( ) ( )~ ( )+
 f12 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f13 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
dim  = 200
 f1 ( ) ( ) ( )+
 f2 ( ) ( ) ( )+
 f3 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f4 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f5 ( ) ( )~ ( )+
 f6 ( ) ( )+ ( )~
 f7 ( ) ( )+ ( )
 f8 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f9 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f10 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f11 ( ) ( )~ ( )+
 f12 ( ) ( )+ ( )+
 f13 ( ) ( )+ ( )+

Note: “+”, “−”, and “~” indicate that MLBBO is significantly better, worse, and indifferent, respectively, compared with other algorithms.