Research Article

The Cross-Entropy Method for the Winner Determination Problem in Combinatorial Auctions

Table 5

Comparison of results from 30 experiments for Test Case 2.

The optimal solutionAlgorithmAverage of time (s)The best resultThe worst resultAverage of resultsSuccess rate (%)

6216.82GA15.666216.826141.246181.8923.33
PSO3.506216.826120.076186.7120.00
CE3.316216.826134.106202.5453.33