Clarifying Cutting and Sewing Processes with Due Windows Using an Effective Ant Colony Optimization

Table 8

Total test results for small and large problems.

		Avg. improvement ratio of effectiveness	Avg. improvement ratio of robustness	𝐹-test	𝑡-test
Small problems	EACO versus PSO	25.26%	26.93%	*	*
	EACO versus ACO	30.94%	28.75%	*	*
Large problems	EACO versus PSO	—	27.31%	*	*
	EACO versus ACO	—	39.54%	*	*

∗Significant difference (all conditions are tested by *𝑃<0.1; **𝑃<0.05; ***𝑃<0.01).