“…The validation of the results found by the rIPA requires a comparison with the other meta-heuristics. For this purpose, the results of the rIPA were compared with the results of the different meta-heuristics including IPA [3], MFO [14], PSO [6,14], GSA [14,24], BA [13,14], FPA [1,14], SMS [7,14], FA [10,14] and GA [12,14]. In order to guarantee that all of these algorithms obtain their final solutions under the same conditions, population sizes were set to 30 and maximum evaluation number was taken equal to 30, 000 [14].…”