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

Table 2

The mean best solutions, standard deviation, maximum, and minimum of the 30 trials obtained by various methods for 30-dimensional functions.

	DE	CMAES	JADE	jDE	PSOcf	PSOwFIPS	UPSO	ABC	CPDE
SD
Max
Min
SD
Max
Min
	(≈)	(≈)	(≈)	(≈)			(≈)	(≈)
SD
Max
Min
SD
Max
Min
		(≈)
SD
Max
Min
SD
Max
Min
								(≈)
SD
Max
Min
SD
Max
Min
							(≈)	(≈)
SD
Max
Min
	(≈)				(≈)		(≈)
SD
Max
Min
General merit over contender	8	4	7	7	9	10	7	5

“+,” “−," and “≈” denote that the performance of CPDE () is better than, worse than, and similar to that of other algorithms.