Research Article

An Opposition-Based Group Search Optimizer with Diversity Guidance

Table 3

Strategies used in the five GSO algorithms.

AlgorithmsManner of initializationManner of evolutionary operators

GSORandomRandom

RGSORandomOpposition-based learning

OGSOOpposition-based learningOpposition-based learning

RDGSORandomOpposition-based learning and diversity-guided operator

DGSOOpposition-based learningOpposition-based learning and diversity-guided operator