Conceptual Comparison of Population Based Metaheuristics for Engineering Problems

Table 6

Pressure vessel problem: comparison of GDE3 results with optimization methods.

Researcher	Metaheuristic
[17]	Simulated annealing—direct search	0.7683	0.3797	39.8096	207.2250	5868.76
[32]	Particle swarm optimization—genetic algorithm	0.7500	0.3750	38.8601	221.3654	5850.383
[20]	Harmonic search	0.7500	0.3750	38.8600	221.3600	5849.7
[21]	Simple constrained particle swarm optimizer	0.8125	0.4375	42.0980	176.6360	6.059.714
[1]	Firefly algorithm	0.7500	0.3750	38.8600	221.3600	5850.3
[24]	Simple optimization	1.1250	0.6250	58.2901	43.6927	7199.35
Present study	Generalized differential evolution 3	0.74391	0.36774	38.5288	239.377	6083.773