“…Comparing their results and convergence, it is easy to observe the performance advantage of HMPSO over its competitors. The last three rows in Table III indicate that the numbers of functions for which HMPSO are better than CPSO-H6, CLPSO, ALCPSO, FIPS, HPSO-TVAC, EDA-PSO, and PSEDA are 21,18,21,25,22,27, and 27, respectively. The numbers of functions for which they are similar to 1.…”