Research Article

A Prefiltered Cuckoo Search Algorithm with Geometric Operators for Solving Sudoku Problems

Table 2

Comparing the prefiltered discrete cuckoo search with the best-performing incomplete methods for Sudokus considering 100000 and unlimited iterations.

Problem Prefiltered discrete CS Hybrid TS GA
Unlimited iterations 100000 iterations Unlimited iterations 100000 iterations Unlimited iterations 100000 iterations

Easy a 30 30 30 30 30 29
Easy b 30 30 30 30 30 30
Easy c 30 30 30 30 30 30
Medium a 30 30 30 30 30 10
Medium b 30 30 30 30
Medium c 30 30 30 30
Hard a 30 30 30 30 30 2
Hard b 30 30 30 30
Hard c 30 30 30 30