The Expanded Invasive Weed Optimization Metaheuristic for Solving Continuous and Discrete Optimization Problems

Table 1

Main differences between IWO and exIWO.

Component of the algorithm	IWO	exIWO
Initialization of a population	Random	Random or greedy
Spatial dispersal	Dispersing	Spreading, dispersing, and rolling down
Competitive exclusion	Global	Global, offspring-based, or family-based