Research Article

A Novel Multiobjective Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization Based on the Ring Model

Table 1

Description of the test functions.

CodeObjective functionsFeatureObjectives

WFG1Mixed,  
convex/concave,
Unimodal,
separable
2 

WFG2 and are as those from WFG1,Convex,
disconnected,
Unimodal,
multimodal,
nonseparable
2 

WFG3Liner,
degenerate,
unimodal,
nonseparable
2 
are as those from WFG2

WFG4Concave,
multimodal,
separable
2 

WFG5 and are as those from WFG4,Concave,
deceptive,
separable
2 

WFG6 are as those from WFG4, as those from WFG1,Concave,
unimodal,
nonseparable
2 

WFG7 are as those from WFG4, as from WFG1, as from WFG4,Concave,
unimodal,
separable
2 

WFG8 are as those from WFG4, as from WFG1, as from WFG4,Concave,
unimodal,
nonseparable
2 

WFG9 are as those from WFG4,   as from WFG6,Concave,
multimodal,
deceptive,
nonseparable
2 

DTLZ2Concave,
unimodal
3

DTLZ4and are both the same with DTLZ2, besides is used to replace Concave,
nonuniform
3

DTLZ7Disconnected,
unimodal,
multimodal
3