Research Article

Enhancing Hyperheuristics for the Knapsack Problem through Fuzzy Logic

Table 4

Percentage of times when the hyperheuristics get better or equal results than the Oracle applied to the sets of hard instances.

MetricsSet of instancesMethods
HH4HH6HH8FuzzyHH

AverageEqual2043.67%51.75%56.14%59.94%
5041.31%50.55%55.10%59.13%
10043.01%51.38%55.00%59.08%
20038.64%36.95%35.26%33.90%
Better203.10%3.30%2.76%7.13%
502.47%2.60%1.97%5.18%
1001.74%1.69%1.27%3.22%
2000.82%0.96%0.66%1.73%

Standard deviationEqual2012.19%12.19%13.12%8.05%
5019.67%18.40%20.39%10.63%
10025.03%22.80%25.76%14.38%
20029.45%26.67%30.12%17.16%
Better203.96%3.72%3.44%2.76%
503.11%3.05%2.46%2.72%
1002.06%1.86%1.63%1.86%
2000.92%0.87%0.73%1.37%

BestEqual2059.83%74.83%83.83%93.16%
5059.33%74.16%83.16%92.83%
10059.66%74.83%83.83%93.16%
20055.16%66.16%74.33%82.33%
Better2012.50%12.16%12.50%13.66%
509.16%9.00%8.00%12.00%
1007.16%6.16%6.33%6.16%
2003.16%2.50%2.66%5.16%

WorstEqual2021.00%14.16%20.00%28.50%
5016.83%12.66%13.83%23.50%
10015.33%12.16%9.50%17.66%
20013.83%11.66%7.00%14.33%
Better200002.00%
500000.66%
1000000.50%
2000000.16%

Results in bold are the best.