Table 2 MA-WOA performance compared to WOA, MWOA, LEWOA, and HWOA.

From: An innovative approach for QoS-aware web service composition using whale optimization algorithm

Size

Dataset

Evaluation

WOA

MWOA

LEWOA

HWOA

MA-WOA

Small

DS1

BFV

124.22

140.96

144.04

141.48

146.48

STD

7.61

4.71

4.17

6.12

2.56

AET

34.53

180.73

46.00

87.93

60.20

DS2

BFV

119.79

138.74

146.41

142.67

143.20

STD

5.91

6.87

7.00

9.33

2.90

AET

36.13

410.40

51.50

94.77

61.90

DS3

BFV

123.88

150.25

148.38

139.23

153.00

STD

5.88

7.18

7.19

7.63

3.52

AET

35.53

770.30

51.63

90.50

70.77

DS4

BFV

166.17

199.57

196.68

198.71

215.57

STD

10.43

11.52

11.89

11.81

11.44

AET

32.83

777.87

51.90

96.97

66.37

Medium

DS5

BFV

254.04

277.72

286.83

272.82

303.19

STD

9.93

7.81

6.99

17.49

6.85

AET

65.40

150.93

87.50

182.77

90.20

DS6

BFV

334.83

373.50

402.98

386.97

398.29

STD

11.48

12.35

16.65

22.17

10.34

AET

87.33

172.93

110.60

255.70

91.47

DS7

BFV

293.86

338.60

366.26

326.52

374.43

STD

8.69

10.47

12.48

11.69

8.03

AET

103.57

179.93

135.93

438.80

111.93

DS8

BFV

356.96

407.96

405.37

410.99

417.35

STD

12.53

15.00

9.67

24.88

9.61

AET

124.10

210.60

152.87

493.90

128.33

Large

DS9

BFV

414.06

429.52

450.75

462.96

488.27

STD

14.19

14.22

13.50

24.56

13.57

AET

139.23

229.13

177.13

513.50

251.23

DS10

BFV

456.94

530.05

564.30

523.40

585.93

STD

17.78

25.02

25.48

25.54

16.84

AET

159.23

250.50

190.27

616.67

277.43

DS11

BFV

483.60

520.15

529.55

567.40

604.86

STD

18.64

19.77

20.36

36.01

19.01

AET

184.63

371.53

220.93

731.90

286.27

DS12

BFV

528.45

557.98

592.54

633.14

642.92

STD

21.76

20.07

20.25

30.23

17.72

AET

204.03

281.50

234.37

829.70

296.53

  1. Significant values are in bold.