Research Article

MEEF: A Minimum-Elimination-Escape Function Method for Multimodal Optimization Problems

Table 6

Comparison of MEEF and NFFA on with different dimensions.

Method FE Succ

7 MEEF 1922.88 3.4441 − 12 2.6303 − 15 2.8989 − 12 100%
NFFA 6028 7.5895 − 8 8.2743 − 8 0 100%

10 MEEF 2412.96 3.1753 − 12 4.1488 − 14 3.0139 − 12 100%
NFFA 6027 0.0012 8.3180 − 7 0.0020 97.10%

12 MEEF 3198.52 2.4606 − 12 2.2468 − 14 2.3517 − 12 100%
NFFA 641.0518 1.5597 − 5 2.0935 − 10 1.1098 − 8 93.47%

15 MEEF 3623.68 2.9584 − 12 1.1703 − 13 2.9320 − 12 100%
NFFA 972.1050 2.4116 − 5 1.8709 − 13 1.0032 − 5 89.78%

20 MEEF 5582.64 2.5215 − 12 1.4919 − 14 2.9127 − 12 100%
NFFA 1321.3011 1.1602 − 4 8.2346 − 8 5.0653 − 6 85.57%

30 MEEF 14039.28 3.1787 − 12 1.2915 − 14 2.9895 − 12 100%
NFFA 2666.1220 0.3012 5.3080 − 5 3.0120 − 4 89.87%