Hydrological Cycle Algorithm for Continuous Optimization Problems

Table 7

Comparison between HCA and other algorithms in terms of average number of iterations.

	Function name	D	B	CACO-DE	ANTS	GA	BA	GEM	WCA	ER-WCA	HCA
(1)	De Jong	2		1872	6000	10,160	868	746
(2)	Goldstein & Price I	2		666	5330	5662	999	701
(3)	Branin	2		-	1936	7325	1657	689
(4)	Martin & Gaddy	2		340	1688	2488	526	258
(5a)	Rosenbrock	2		-	6842	10,212	631	572
(5b)	Rosenbrock	2		1313	7505	-	2306	2289
(6)	Rosenbrock	4		624	8471	-	28,529	82,188
(7)	Hypersphere	6		270	22,050	15,468	7113	423
(8)	Shaffer	2		-	-	-	-	-
Mean				847.5	7477.8	8552.5	5328.6	10983.3	1356.0	403.1	444.8