Research Article

Multiswarm Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization with Simulated Annealing for Extracting Multiple Tests

Table 4

Experimental parameters.

The required level of difficulty (ODR)0.5

The total test time (TR)5400 (seconds)

The value of α[0.1, 0.9]

The number of required questions in a test100

The number of questions in each section in the test10

The number of simultaneously generated tests in each run100

The number of questions in the bank1000 and 12,000

The PSO’s parametersThe number of particles in each swarm: 10
Random value r1, r2 are in [0,1]
The percentage of Pbest individuals which receive position information from Gbest (C1): 5%
The percentage of Gbest which moves to final goals (C2): 5%
The percentage of migration δ: 10%
The percentage of migration probability γ: 5%
The stop condition: either when the tolerance fitness <0.001 or when the number of movement loops >1000

The SA’s parametersInitial temperature: 100
Cooling rate: 0.9
Termination temperature: 0.01
Number of iterations: 100