An Improved Brain Storm Optimization with Differential Evolution Strategy for Applications of ANNs

Table 1

Numerical benchmark function definition (CEC2005 ).

Number	Function name	Type	Low range	Up range	Optima
	Shifted sphere	Unimodal	−100	100	0
	Shifted Schwefel	Unimodal	−100	100	0
	Shifted rotated high conditioned elliptic	Unimodal	−100	100	0
	Shifted Schwefel’s problem 1.2 with noise	Unimodal	−100	100	0
	Schwefel’s problem 2.6	Unimodal	−100	100	0
	Shifted Rosenbrock	Multimodal	−100	100	0
	Shifted rotated Griewank	Multimodal	0	600	0
	Shifted rotated Ackley	Multimodal	−32	32	0
	Shifted Rastrigin	Multimodal	−5	5	0
	Shifted rotated Rastrigin	Multimodal	−5	5	0
	Shifted rotated Weierstrass	Multimodal	−0.5	0.5	0
	Schwefel’s problem 2.13	Multimodal	−100	100	0
	Expanded extended Griewank and Rosenbrock	Expanded	−3	1	0
	Expanded rotated extended Scaffes	Expanded	−100	100	0