Research Article

Focusing on the Golden Ball Metaheuristic: An Extended Study on a Wider Set of Problems

Table 9

Results of Friedman’s test (smaller is better). The last column depicts the value.

Problem GB GA1 GA2 DGA1 DGA2

ATSP 1.01 3.16 4.52 3.17 3.01 42.04
VRPB 1.00 4.33 3.25 4.00 2.25 28.00
NQP 1.04 4.21 2.28 4.21 2.64 15.49
BPP 1.00 3.96 3.03 4.06 2.81 34.00