Research Article

Entropy-Driven Global Best Selection in Particle Swarm Optimization for Many-Objective Software Package Restructuring

Table 2

Difference [rank] values of each variant in terms of the IGD.

ProblemsEMPSOGMPSOFMPSOIMPSODMPSOBMPSOSMPSOAMPSOWMPSO

JUnit+8[1]+6[2]+4[3]−2[5]+2[4]−2[5]−2[5]−6[8]−2[5]
DOM 4J+7[1]−6[3]+4[3]+7[1]+0[5]−3[6]+2[4]−3[6]−8[9]
JHotDraw+5[2]+8[1]+2[4]+5[2]+0[5]−3[6]−7[8]−3[6]−7[8]
JDI-Ford+8[1]+3[3]+6[2]+2[4]+1[5]−7[8]−3[6]−3[6]−7[8]
Xerces-J+6[2]+4[3]+8[1]+2[4]−1[5]−6[7]−6[7]−1[5]−6[7]