A Guaranteed Global Convergence Social Cognitive Optimizer

Table 2

Summary of results of the SSCO on eight test cases.

NLP.	Type	Opt.	GA			PSO	SCO	SSCO
			Worst	Best	Avg.	Avg.	Avg.	Worst	Best	Avg.
	min	−15	−14.6154	−14.7864	−14.7082	−14.7951	−14.8891	−14.8767	−15.0000	−14.9953
	max	0.803553	0.79119	0.79953	0.79671	0.79592	0.75475	0.79124	0.80109	0.79638
	min	−30665.5	−30645.9	−30645.5	−30645.3	−30655.429	−30665.539	−30665.539	−30665.539	−30665.539
	min	−6961.814	−5473.9	−6952.1	−6342.6	−6781.913	−6961.812	−6961.805	−6961.814	−6961.813
	min	24.306	25.069	24.620	24.826	24.713	24.742	24.681	24.306	24.359
	max	0.095825	0.0291438	0.0958250	0.0891568	0.091573	0.095158	0.095231	0.095825	0.095811
	min	680.63	683.18	680.91	681.16	690.642	680.699	680.811	680.631	680.671
	min	7049.33	9659.3	7147.9	8163.6	7531.9	7407.7	7296.35	7049.41	7124.72