Research Article

Particle Swarm Algorithms to Solve Engineering Problems: A Comparison of Performance

Table 5

Results for E03: speed reducer design.

Algorithm FEs Runs Best Mean St. Dev. Worst

( )-ES 30000 30 2996.348094 2996.348094 0 2996.348094
PSO NA NA NA NA NA NA
HPSACO NA NA NA NA NA NA
NM-PSO NA NA NA NA NA NA
HEA-ACT 200000 30 2994.4991 2994.6134 2994.7523
PSOLVER NA NA NA NA NA NA
CPSOSA NA NA NA NA NA NA
GABC 30000 30 2996.783 2996.783 0 2996.783
PSO 5000 30 3000.8 NA NA NA
GDA 20000 20 2996.348072 3094.556809 3016.492651
SiCPSO 30000 50 2996.348165 2996.3481 0 2996.3481
MCEPSO 30000 50 2996.348165 2996.3482 0 2996.3482

NA stands for not available.
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