Research Article

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

Table 9

Comparison of the optimization results obtained by PS-FW and six PSO variants (the best ranks are marked in bold).

PS-FWstdPSOCPSOCLPSOFIPSFrankenstein AIWPSO

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