Different Transfer Functions for Binary Particle Swarm Optimization with a New Encoding Scheme for Discounted {0-1} Knapsack Problem

Table 11

Average ranks of BPSO8, SecEGA, and FirEGA on 40 instances.

Index	Algorithm	Average best rank	Average mean rank	Average worst rank
1	FirEGA	1.8	1.3	1.4
2	SecGA	2.9	2.1	2.1
3	BPSO8	1.3	0.9	0.9