Research Article

Ls-II: An Improved Locust Search Algorithm for Solving Optimization Problems

Table 2

Wilcoxon’s test comparison for LS-II versus PSO, De, ABC, HS, BA, and LS. The table shows the resulting -values for each pairwise comparison.

FunctionLS-II vs PSOLS-II vs DELS-II vs ABCLS-II vs HSLS-II vs BALS-II vs LS

6.54×10−151.11×10−123.01×10−111.12×10−134.36×10−134.86×10−12
1.57×10−141.52×10−158.48×10−099.65×10−149.78×10−132.02×10−13
5.47×10−124.33×10−103.01×10−117.56×10−102.99×10−132.89×10−11
3.65×10−134.88×10−103.01×10−116.19×10−103.45×10−109.11×10−12
6.14×10−126.95×10−108.18×10−019.12×10−127.25×10−101.38×10−11
6.24×10−112.45×10−103.01×10−114.54×10−128.34×10−101.84×10−11
8.53×10−107.88×10−103.01×10−116.37×10−128.15×10−122.31×10−11
2.70×10−156.31×10−113.01×10−111.14×10−127.77×10−132.77×10−11
9.81×10−114.69×10−111.21×10−121.54×10−133.25×10−133.24×10−11
5.64×10−132.55×10−113.02×10−117.18×10−134.12×10−103.71×10−11
9.71×10−123.78×10−121.21×10−124.51×10−133.03×10−104.17×10−11
4.32×10−121.99×10−143.02×10−118.4710−137.21×10−114.64×10−11
2.21×10−121.19×10−123.02×10−119.10×10−123.32×10−115.10×10−11