Research Article

Multipopulation Management in Evolutionary Algorithms and Application to Complex Warehouse Scheduling Problems

Table 1

2013 CEC benchmark functions, where the search range of all functions is . More details about these functions can be found in [24].

FunctionFunction NameMinimum

Unimodal functionsF1Sphere Function−1400
F2Rotated High Conditioned Elliptic Function−1300
F3Rotated Bent Cigar Function−1200
F4Rotated Discus Function−1100
F5Different Powers Function−1000

Basic multimodal functionsF6Rotated Rosenbrock Function−900
F7Rotated Schaffer F7 Function−800
F8Rotated Ackley Function−700
F9Rotated Weierstrass Function−600
F10Rotated Griewank Function−500
F11Rastrigin Function−400
F12Rotated Rastrigin Function−300
F13Discontinuous Rotated Rastrigin Function−200
F14Schwefel Function−100
F15Rotated Schwefel Function100
F16Rotated Katsuura Function200
F17Lunacek Bi_Rastrigin Function300
F18Rotated Lunacek Bi_Rastrigin Function400
F19Expanded Griewank plus Rosenbrock Function500
F20Expanded Schaffer F6 Function600

Composition functionsF21Composition Function 1 (, rotated)700
F22Composition Function 2 (, unrotated)800
F23Composition Function 3 (, rotated)900
F24Composition Function 4 (, rotated)1000
F25Composition Function 5 (, rotated)1100
F26Composition Function 6 (, rotated)1200
F27Composition Function 7 (, rotated)1300
F28Composition Function 8 (, rotated)1400