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

Table 5

Mean fitness, average ranking, and number of wins (nWins) in pair-wise comparisons with the other algorithms on the 4-by-4 degree polynomial rational function.

	Mean fitness	Ranking	nWins
IPOP-CMA-ES		1.86	8
Self-Adaptive DE		2.08	5
DE		2.09	5
GA		4.86	2
MTS-LS1		6.04	0
GODE		6.04	−2
NLLS constrained		7.04	−4
Solis and Wets		7.17	−6
NLLS unconstrained		7.84	−8