Research Article

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

Table 4

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

ProblemsEMPSOGMPSOFMPSOIMPSODMPSOBMPSOSMPSOAMPSOWMPSO

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