Research Article

Hydrological Cycle Algorithm for Continuous Optimization Problems

Table 8

Comparison between -values for HCA and other algorithms (based on Table 7).

Algorithm versus HCAUsing -test Using Wilcoxon testIs the result significant at 
value-value-value 
(at critical value of )

CACO-DE versus HCA0.3240336 (at 0)No
ANTS versus HCA0.0149530 (at 3)Yes
GA versus HCA0.0055980 (at 0)Yes
BA versus HCA0.1884340 (at 3)Yes
GEM versus HCA0.3334147 (at 3)No
WCA versus HCA0.37950520 (at 5)No
ER-WCA versus HCA0.83232618 (at 5)No