Research Article

Comparative Study of Metaheuristics for the Curve-Fitting Problem: Modeling Neurotransmitter Diffusion and Synaptic Receptor Activation

Table 14

Mean fitness, average ranking, and number of wins (nWins) in pair-wise comparisons with the other algorithms on the 2-term exponential function.

Mean fitness Ranking nWins

Self-Adaptive DE 1.69 8
DE 1.86 6
IPOP-CMA-ES 2.46 4
Solis and Wets 4.84 2
MTS-LS1 5.43 0
NLLS unconstrained 5.73 −2
NLLS constrained 7.25 −4
GODE 7.68 −6
GA 8.06 −8