Parameter Selection for Ant Colony Algorithm Based on Bacterial Foraging Algorithm

Table 2

Performance comparison of GA, PSO, and BFA.

	Optimization times	Number of fitness function calls	Simulation time/s	Minimum distance	Average distance
GA	10	274	142.1787	78.1838	101.9677
	20	532	298.3970	75.4975	101.1249
	30	788	449.1179	72.6690	101.1712
PSO	10	220	118.1516	76.7696	107.8844
	20	420	217.0521	75.4975	107.5190
	30	620	334.9856	72.9411	106.6085
BFA	10	505	249.2963	72.6690	96.1448
	20	1018	526.5445	71.2548	91.8834
	30	1570	810.1920	71.0122	91.1293