Research Article

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

Table 3

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

ProblemsEMPSOGMPSOFMPSOIMPSODMPSOBMPSOSMPSOAMPSOWMPSO

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