Research Article

Particle Swarm Algorithms to Solve Engineering Problems: A Comparison of Performance

Table 6

Results for E04: tension/compression spring design.

Algorithm FEs Runs Best Mean St. Dev. Worst

( )-ES 30000 30
PSO NA NA NA NA NA NA
HPSACO NA NA NA NA NA NA
NM-PSO 80000 30 0.00126302 0.0126314 0.012719
HEA-ACT 200000 30 0.012665233 0.012665234 0.01266524
PSOLVER 253 30 0.0126652 0.0126652 0.0126652
CPSOSA NA NA NA NA NA NA
GABC 30000 30 0.126 0.127 NA
PSO 30000 30 1.724897 1.730813 1.767000
GDA 20000 20 0.0126652296 0.0140793687 0.0128750789
SiCPSO 30000 50 0.012665 0.0133 0.0146
MCEPSO 30000 50 0.012666 0.0132 0.0146

NA stands for not available.
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