A Multipopulation PSO Based Memetic Algorithm for Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling

Table 4

The results of Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test of MPSOMA with PSOMA and PSOEDA.

Problem	𝑛,𝑚	𝐶	v.s. PSOMA	v.s. PSOEDA
Car6	8, 9	8505	−2.1180	−1.1010
Car7	7, 7	6590	−1.3127	−1.2423
Car8	8, 8	8366	−1.3086	−1.2126
Rec03	20, 5	1109	−1.1461	−1.1461
Rec05	20, 5	1242	1.5000	−1.129
Rec07	20, 10	1566	−1.9852	−1.2252
Rec09	20, 10	1537	−2.7304	−2.6731
Rec11	20, 10	1431	−3.4105	−3.0886
Rec13	20, 15	1930	−3.9106	−2.5051
Rec15	20, 15	1950	−2.4497	−1.6440
Rec17	20, 15	1902	−3.7239	−0.0101
Rec19	30, 10	2093	−1.9846	−2.3642
Rec21	30, 10	2017	−1.9652	−2.1660
Rec23	30, 10	2011	−2.2234	−1.9051
Rec25	30, 15	2513	−3.0483	−2.0333