A New Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Exponential Function Adaptive Steps

Table 5

Reduction rate of total iteration time.

Function		MABC to DEABC	MABC to NABC	MABC to ABC
Sphere	20	85.38%	85.88%	85.43%
	40	85.11%	85.83%	85.19%
SumSquares	20	81.08%	81.41%	81.17%
	40	80.59%	81.38%	80.77%
Schwefel 2.22	20	84.26%	84.64%	84.42%
	40	83.53%	84.50%	83.74%
Griewank	20	77.81%	78.22%	77.83%
	40	75.39%	76.19%	73.52%
Rastrigin	20	83.80%	83.96%	83.84%
	40	82.23%	83.28%	82.35%
Ackley	20	82.26%	82.80%	82.48%
	40	81.20%	81.93%	81.07%