Table 8.
The overall rank in CEC 2017 test functions (a), the bold numbers means the best performance among whole competitors.
| Simple Multimodal | Hybrid Functions | Composition Functions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Loser | Score | Rank | Winner | Loser | Score | Rank | Winner | Loser | Score | Rank | |
| ESOA | 2 | 0 | 8.99378 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10.9602 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 11.9205 | 1 |
| PSO [16] | 0 | 3 | 1.94422 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3.85613 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2.82345 | 5 |
| GA [5] | 1 | 1 | 7.23141 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 10.5838 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8.27331 | 3 |
| DE [6] | 3 | 1 | 8.71516 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7.66103 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9.07179 | 2 |
| GWO [18] | 2 | 0 | 9.01376 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8.74242 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7.97473 | 4 |
| HHO [83] | 0 | 3 | 1.62757 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 2.11415 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0.674735 | 6 |