Research Article

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

Table 8

FTT: number of evaluations obtained with 10 particles: 3000 iterations. Statistics over 50 complete runs.

Problem Mean Mean St. Dv. St. Dv. Best Best Worst Worst Rep. Runs Rep. Runs
MCEPSO SiCPSO MCEPSO SiCPSO MCEPSO SiCPSO MCEPSO SiCPSO MCEPSO SiCPSO

FE E01 300.7 1061.4
177.9 1070.2
48 130
855 5620
0
20
CE E01 1376.1 814.3 221 3753

FE E02 572.9 193.8
1151.9 62.4
99 30
8337 370
0
0
CE E02 1769.2 3082.1 284 22103

FE E03 13.4 98.4
16.8 50.9
1 10
77 210
0
0
CE E03 537.9 557.2 27 2716

FE E04 166.5 1223.3
247.4 3514.7
11 190
1383 22480
1
1
CE E04 1488.2 1495.5 150 7251