Research Article

An Improved Physarum polycephalum Algorithm for the Shortest Path Problem

Table 1

The related parameters of the erdos.renyi.game function. In this function, the parameter denotes the probability of drawing an edge between two arbitrary vertices.

Test problem Number of nodes Number of edges

1 15 23 0.20
2 30 45 0.15
3 50 107 0.10
4 80 240 0.08
5 100 304 0.06
6 200 819 0.04
7 250 1124 0.04
8 400 1634 0.02
9 500 2496 0.02
10 800 3229 0.01
11 1000 3950 0.008
12 1200 4347 0.006
13 1500 6822 0.006
14 1800 6521 0.004
15 2000 4044 0.002