Research Article

PS-FW: A Hybrid Algorithm Based on Particle Swarm and Fireworks for Global Optimization

Table 4

Comparison of the optimization results obtained by PS-FW, PSO, and FWA with for functions to (the best ranks are marked in bold).

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