Research Article

Sales Growth Rate Forecasting Using Improved PSO and SVM

Table 1

Comparison of IPSO and PSO on the three classic benchmark functions.

Test functionIPSOPSO
Mean best fitnessAverage time/msMean best fitnessAverage time/ms

2.16 × 10 −4150.42.81 × 10−4312.5
0.81 × 10 −1421.611.3 × 10−1539.2
0.48327.225.3565.1