The Coral Reefs Optimization Algorithm: A Novel Metaheuristic for Efficiently Solving Optimization Problems

Table 6

Results obtained by CRO, HS, and GA in the considered 3-bit Deceptive instances. The results are shown in best/average/standard deviation over 30 runs of the algorithms.

𝑛	CRO	HS	GA	Upper bound
15	400/400/0	400/399.66/1.82	400/400/0	400
30	800/800/0	800/792/8.05	800/795/6.82	800
45	1200/1200/0	1190/1159/14.93	1200/1179.3/13.37	1200
60	1600/1600/0	1560/1517.3/21.96	1590/1562.70/18.74	1600
75	2000/2000/0	1910/1882/20.97	1990/1940.30/22.04	2000
90	2400/2400/0	2280/2243/22.63	2340/2297.30/21.16	2400
105	2800/2799.70/1.82	2660/2598.80/34.20	2730/2687.70/27.75	2800
120	3200/3200/0	2990/2924.8/37.90	3090/3049/21.22	3200