The Scientific World Journal

Research Article

[Retracted] An Improved Differential Evolution Solution for Software Project Scheduling Problem

Table 2

Yardstick in numerical simulations.
YardstickImplication
Success rateNumber of trials; the proposed IDE reaches the best solution in all 100 trial runs
Optimum costMean of the best feasible solutions in all 100 trial runs
Simulation time (sec)Mean of the final time required to reach the final solution in every run
Optimum fitnessMean fitness of best solution in all 100 runs
which is defined as follows: