Research Article

Cluster-Based Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization and Application for Chemical Plants

Table 4

Result of mean convergence and diversity.

MetricMean convergence ()Mean diversity (Δ)
Population sizeMaximal archive sizeMOPSOCMOPSO-XCMOPSO-OBJMOPSOCMOPSO-XCMOPSO-OBJ

1,000100.123670.104460.115550.013010.012560.00831
1,000500.119950.110770.112240.005620.002380.00292
1,0001000.122220.110500.111550.003800.002520.00405
10,000100.090870.074100.092920.013530.006110.01001
10,000500.095290.075980.088940.003870.000530.00293
10,0001000.095250.083350.088690.001760.000260.00235
50,000100.070150.059730.092200.007840.005630.01140
50,000500.074270.050640.077280.002740.000670.00173
50,0001000.074160.060500.078350.001420.000230.00210

The bold values are the lowest values (best performance) among the three compared methods in each iteration.