A Novel Tournament Selection Based Differential Evolution Variant for Continuous Optimization Problems

Table 1

List of DE mutation strategies.

Mutation strategy number	Binomial/exponential
	Variant name	Equation
	DE/rand/1 [1]
	DE/best/1 [14]
	DE/rand/2 [14]
	DE/best/2 [14]
	DE/current to rand/1 [15]
	DE/Current-to-rand/1 [16]
	DE/current to best/1 [1] & DE/rand to best/1 [17] &; DE/current to best/2 [18] & DE/rand to best/2 [19]
	DE/current to best/1 [20] & DE/rand to best/1 [21]
	DE/rand to best/1 [22] & DE/rand to best/2 [20]
	DE/rand to best/1 [23]
	DE/rand to best/1 [24]
	DE/current to best/2 [15] & DE/rand to best/2 [25]
	DE/current to rand/2 [15]
	DE/rand to best/2 [26]
	DE/rand to best/2 [26]
	DE/rand to current/2 [27]
	DE/rand to best and current/2 [27]
	DE/mid-to-better/1 [28]
	DE/rand/3 [27]
	DE/best/3 [27]