A Solution Quality Assessment Method for Swarm Intelligence Optimization Algorithms

Table 1

Experimental comparison for ant number 𝑚.

𝑚	Best	Worst	Average	STD	𝑃𝐴	𝑃𝑔	𝑒𝑟
2	2.6907	3.2025	2.7671	0.0840	0.8496	0.9985	0.1489
4	2.6907	2.9689	2.7200	0.0521	0.9626	1.0000	0.0374
5	2.6907	2.9689	2.7111	0.0410	0.9792	1.0000	0.0208
8	2.6907	2.8982	2.6966	0.0222	0.9972	1.0000	0.0028
10	2.6907	2.8982	2.6937	0.0163	0.9992	1.0000	0.0008

The best solution, the worst solution, the average solution quality, and the standard deviation in K times running are given.