Research Article

A Binary Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm for the Non-Unicost Set Covering Problem

Table 2

Computation times of BCSO and ABC.

Instance set Number of instances Timeavg BCSO (s) Timeavg ABC (s)

4 10 4.5 5.1
5 10 5.6 6.6
6 5 7.0 11.0
A 5 11.7 11.2
B 5 25.8 37.9
C 5 20.0 17.7
D 5 49.4 72.2
NRE 5 71.6 96.6
NRF 5 52.9 314.2
NRG 5 151.8 94.8
NRH 5 213.4 545.7