Research Article

Hydrological Cycle Algorithm for Continuous Optimization Problems

Table 6

Comparison between WCA and HCA in terms of results and iterations.

Function nameDBondBest resultWCAHCA
WorstAvgBest#WorstAvgBest#

De Jong2
Goldstein & Price I2
Branin2
Martin & Gaddy2
Rosenbrock2
Rosenbrock2
Rosenbrock4
Hypersphere6
Shaffer2
Goldstein & Price I2
Goldstein & Price II2
Six-Hump Came back2
Easton & Fenton2
Wood4
Powell quartic4

Mean7000.6463.8