Research Article

Designing Artificial Neural Networks Using Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms

Table 3

Number of connections used by the ANN generated with the basic PSO algorithm.

ID problem Classification problems Connection number
Minimum Maximum Average Std. dev.

1 Spiral 4 10 7.2667 1.4126
2 Synthetic 1 5 10 7.0667 1.2576
3 Synthetic 2 5 9 7.5 1.3326
4 Iris plant 14 23 18.9667 2.4563
5 Breast cancer 19 50 38 6.9926
6 Diabetes 8 47 35 7.0759
7 Liver disorders 16 31 24.6667 3.8177
8 Object recognition 54 71 62.8 4.9578
9 Wine 59 109 91.1 13.2336
10 Glass 81 108 97.4333 6.3933