Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms

Appendix A

Test Function Benchmarks for Global Optimization

Though there are many test functions in the literature, there is no agreed-on list of standard test functions. Various attempts to summarize these functions have been carried out Readers can find more details in [1,3,4,12,6–11], and some online collections also exist and relatively comprehensive [5,2,10]. The current collection in this appendix is largely based on the comprehensive review by Jamil and Yang [12].

The diversity of various functions and their properties can be classified according to their characteristics such as modality, separability, basins and valleys, and dimensionality. For details, refer to Floudas et al. [4] and Jamil and Yang [12]. Here we provide a list of 100 ...