Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm: A Survey and Performance Evaluation

Table 1

Summary of the modified versions of the CSO algorithm.

Comparison of	With	Testing field	Performance	Reference
CSO (original)	PSO and weighted-PSO	Six test functions	Better	[4, 5]
BCSO	GA, BPSO, and NBPSO	Four test functions (sphere, Rastrigin, Ackley, and Rosenbrock)	Better	[9]
MOCSO	NSGA-II	Cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio	Better	[10]
PCSO	CSO and weighted-PSO	Three test functions (Rosenbrock, Rastrigrin, and Griewank)	Better when the number of iteration is fewer and the population size is small	[11]
CSO clustering	K-means and PSO clustering	Four different clustering datasets (Iris, Soybean, Glass, and Balance Scale)	More accurate but slower.	[12]
EPCSO	PCSO, PSO-LDIW, PSO-CREV, GCPSO, MPSO-TVAC, CPSO-H6, PSO-DVM	Five test functions and aircraft schedule recovery problem	Better	[13]
AICSO	CSO	Three test functions (Rastrigrin, Griewank, and Ackley)	Better	[14]
ADCSO	CSO	Six test functions (Rastrigrin, Griewank, Ackley, axis parallel, Trid10, and Zakharov)	Better except for Griewank test function.	[15]
Enhanced HCSO	PSO	Motion estimation block-matching	Better	[16, 17]
ICSO	PSO	Motion estimation block-matching	Better	[17]
OL-ICSO	K-median, PSO, CSO, and ICSO	ART1, ART2, Iris, CMC, Cancer, and Wine datasets	Better	[18]
CQCSO	QCSO, CSO, PSO, and CPSO	Five test functions (Schaffer, Shubert, Griewank, Rastrigrin, and Rosenbrock) and multipeak maximum power point tracking for a photovoltaic array under complex conditions	Better	[19]
ICSO	CSO and PSO	The 69-bus test distribution system	Better	[20]
ICSO	CSO, BCSO, AICSO, and EPCSO	Twelve test functions (sphere, Rosenbrock, Rastrigin, Griewank, Ackley, Step, Powell, Schwefel, Schaffer, Zakharov’s, Michalewicz, quartic) and five real-life clustering problems (Iris, Cancer, CMC, Wine, and Glass)	Better	[21]
Hybrid PCSOABC	PCSO and ABC	Five test functions	Better	[22]
CSO-GA-PSOSVM	CSO + SVM (CSOSVM)	66 feature points from each face of CK + (Cohn Kanade) dataset	Better	[23]
Hybrid CSO-based algorithm	GA, EA, SA, PSO, and AFS	School timetabling test instances	Better	[24]
Hybrid CSO-GA-SA	SLPA and CFinder	Seven datasets (Karate, Dolphin, Polbooks, Football, Net-Science, Power, Indian Railway)	Better	[25]
MCSO	CSO	Nine datasets from UCI	Better	[26]
MCSO	CSO	Eight dataset	Better	[27]
NMCSO	CSO, PSO	Sixteen benchmark functions	Better	[28]
ICSO	CSO	Ten datasets from UCI	Better	[29]
cCSO	DE, PSO, CSO	47 benchmark functions	Better	[30]
BBCSO	Binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO), binary genetic algorithm (BGA), binary CSO	0/1 Knapsack optimization problem	Better	[31]
CSO-CS	N/A	VRP instances from http://neo.lcc.uma.es/vrp/	N/A	[32]