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

<table class="table-group" id="tab7"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">  Instance</td><td align="center">CRO</td><td align="center">HS</td><td align="center">GA</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">  1</td><td align="center">0/1.4000/1.1425</td><td align="center">1/6.6500/3.7314</td><td align="center">0/0.1500/0.4894</td></tr><tr><td align="left">2</td><td align="center">0/1.3000/0.8645</td><td align="center">2/6.5000/3.6921</td><td align="center">0/0.1500/0.3663</td></tr><tr><td align="left">3</td><td align="center">0/1.9000/1.0208</td><td align="center">1/6.5000/3.1871</td><td align="center">0/0.3000/0.4702</td></tr><tr><td align="left">4</td><td align="center">0/1.4000/1.2732</td><td align="center">1/5.5000/2.7625</td><td align="center">0/0.0500/0.2236</td></tr><tr><td align="left">5</td><td align="center">0/1.3500/1.0894</td><td align="center">1/6.1500/2.9249</td><td align="center">0/0.1000/0.4472</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Results obtained by CRO, HS, and GA in the considered <i> MAX-3SAT</i> instances (20 clauses). The results are shown in best/average/standard deviation over 30 runs of the algorithms.

The Scientific World Journal

tab7

Table 7

Table 7: The Coral Reefs Optimization Algorithm: A Novel Metaheuristic for Efficiently Solving Optimization Problems 