Research Article

Cloud Particles Differential Evolution Algorithm: A Novel Optimization Method for Global Numerical Optimization

Table 1

Details of numerical benchmarks used in the experiments.

FunctionFormulaRangeOptima

Sphere[−100, 100]0
Sum Square[−100, 100]0
Step[−100, 100]0
Schwefel 1.2[−100, 100]0
Zakharov[−100, 100]0
Ackley[−32.768, 32.768]0
Rastrigin[−5.12, 5.12]0
Weierstrass[−0.5, 0.5]0
                      
Griewank[−600, 600]0
Rosenbrock [−2.048, 2.048]0