Research Article

Two-Swim Operators in the Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for the Optimal Synthesis of Four-Bar Mechanisms

Table 4

Parameter values for the three BFOA-based compared algorithms. “—” indicates that the corresponding parameter is not required by the algorithm located in the column.

Parameter MBFOA IMBFOA TS-MBFOA

40 20 60
24 20 10
1 2 1
1.75 1.5 1.75
RepCycle 100 100
Value to reach Max_Evals Value to reach Max_FEs Value to reach Max_FEs
1 and (MAX/2) generations
0.15
−0.25
ss 8 8