Performance Evaluation of Nature-Inspired Algorithms in constrained Optimization

Abstract

In almost all scientific contributions to the field of Nature-Inspired Algorithms (NIAs), the researchers select some benchmark test suites, which makes possible to draw conclusions on the merit of the proposed algorithm. Hence, it is a vital task to compose comprehensive test suites with the aim of covering variety of different scenarios. Furthermore, while conducting comparative analysis of results obtained with NIAs, selection of the proper performance indicators are of paramount importance. This paper intends to address these two topics with a special stress on NIAs designed for constrained optimization.