Gravitation field algorithm and its application in gene cluster

Table 3 Mean numbers of epochs until the minimization threshold was reached and mean number of failures.

	Sphere	Rosenbrock	Rastrigin	Griewank	Ackley
GA
mean number of epochs	51	57	51	51	92
number of failures	0	0	0	0	0
GFA
mean number of epochs	31	46	30	49	97
number of failures	0	0	0	0	0
SA
mean number of epochs	816	46024	6349	21634	1001
number of failures	108	500	314	126	234

Best performance (i.e., lowest number) for each function is highlighted in bold underline letters.

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