Research Article

A Hybrid Metaheuristic of Integrating Estimation of Distribution Algorithm with Tabu Search for the Max-Mean Dispersion Problem

Table 2

Parameter settings for the proposed EDA-TS algorithm.

Parameters Description Section Value

the size of the elite set2.2 10
the threshold coefficient in determining the preference candidate set 2.3.20.35
the threshold coefficient in determining the conditional preference set 2.3.20.5
the probability to choose a variable from 2.3.20.1
the minimum number of added variables when constructing a solution2.3.2
the tabu search depth2.450000
the number of continuous unsuccessful updates2.5 50