Research Article

Opposition-Based Barebones Particle Swarm for Constrained Nonlinear Optimization Problems

Table 1

Summary of main characteristics of benchmark problems, where means the feasible region, is the whole search region, NE represents nonlinear equality, NI indicates nonlinear inequality, LI means linear inequality, and is the number of active constraints at optimum.

Problems Type LI NE NI

13 Quadratic 0.011% 9 0 0 6
20 Nonlinear 99.990% 1 0 1 1
10 Polynomial 0.002% 0 1 0 1
5 Quadratic 52.123% 0 0 6 2
4 Cubic 0.000% 2 3 0 3
2 Cubic 0.006% 0 0 2 2
10 Quadratic 0.000% 3 0 5 6
2 Nonlinear 0.856% 0 0 2 0
7 Polynomial 0.512% 0 0 4 2
8 Linear 0.001% 3 0 3 3
2 Quadratic 0.000% 0 1 0 1
3 Quadratic 4.779% 0 0 0
5 Exponential 0.000% 0 3 0 3