Research Article

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

Table 9

FTT: number of evaluations obtained with 20 particles: 1500 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 413.9 2292.8
266.3 3904.6
33 140
1340 18320
2
9
CE E01 1804.7 1153.5 176 5294

FE E02 453.8 255.2
166 73.6
83 80
901 400
3
0
CE E02 1421.3 662.1 226 3603

FE E03 13.8 134.4
11.1 71.68
1 20
44 760
0
0
CE E03 287 248.7 50 1730

FE E04 132 3231.6
125.9 5968.6
2 240
746 27720
5
0
CE E04 1147.5 846 40 5083