Research Article

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

Table 8

The exIWO parameters used for the Mona Lisa TSP Challenge.

DescriptionValue

Population cardinality20
Number of iterations (stop criterion)1000000
Initialization of the first populationGreedy
Maximum number of seeds sowed by a weed 5
Minimum number of seeds sowed by a weed 1
Initial value of standard deviation 10
Final value of standard deviation 0.01
Nonlinear modulation factor 3
Number of neighbours and neighbourhoods examined during the rolling down3
Probability of the dispersing 0.8
Probability of the spreading 0
Probability of the rolling down 0.2
Selection methodFamily-based