A Hybrid Mutation Chemical Reaction Optimization Algorithm for Global Numerical Optimization

Table 1

The benchmark objective functions.

Objective function	Number of molecules	Lower-upper bound		Name
Category I
	30		0	Sphere model
	30		0	Schwefel’s problem 2.22
	30		0	Schwefel’s problem 1.2
	30		0	Schwefel’s problem 2.21
	30		0	Generalized Rosenbrock’s function
	30		0	Step function quartic
	30		0	Function with noise
Category II
	30			Generalized Schwefel’s problem 2.26
	30		0	Generalized Rastrigin’s function
	30		0	Ackley’s function
	30		0	Generalized Griewank function
	30		0	Generalized penalized functions
	30		0
Remark: in and ,
Category III
			1	Shekel’s foxholes function
	4		0.0003075	Kowalik’s function
	2			Six-hump camel-back function
	2			Branin function
	2			Goldstein-Price function
	3			Hartman’s family
	6
	4			Shekel’s family
	4
	4