Research Article

Designing Artificial Neural Networks Using Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms

Table 4

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

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

1 Spiral 3 4 3.7667 0.4302
2 Synthetic 1 2 4 3.7 0.5350
3 Synthetic 2 3 4 3.8667 0.3457
4 Iris plant 5 6 5.7667 0.4302
5 Breast cancer 3 7 6.4667 0.9371
6 Diabetes 2 7 6.4333 1.0063
7 Liver disorders 4 6 5.7 0.5350
8 Object recognition 10 11 10.9 0.3051
9 Wine 8 11 10.5 0.8610
10 Glass 13 13 13 0