A Novel Crow Swarm Optimization Algorithm (CSO) Coupling Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Crow Search Algorithm (CSA)

Table 3

Statistics of turning points of 25 trials for test functions.

function	Parameter	Average number of turning points	Iteration time of the last turning point	Averaged optimal value	Averaged value change for each turn
Rastrigin’s	PSO	86	112	19.07	0.84
	CSA	16	823	28.92	6.58
	CSO	36	839	11.72	3.08
Ackley	PSO	73	93	2.64	0.19
	CSA	32	922	6.18	0.46
	CSO	83	365	2.58e-12	0.20