In the field of computer science and operation’s research, Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) is an optimization algorithm relatively new swarm intelligence technique based on behaviour of honey bee swarm and Meta heuristic. It is successfully applied to various paths mostly continuous optimization problems. Swarm intelligence systems are typically made up of a population of simple agents or boids int...

This paper is to seek effective scheme of boiler efficiency optimization, it uses Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm to optimize boiler efficiency based on the model of boiler combustion efficiency. First, an optimization model of boiler efficiency, which takes boiler efficiency function as optimization objective, is set up according to the heat loss of boiler combustion. Moreover, the opera...

This paper presents an Improved Artificial Bee Colony (IABC) algorithm to optimal tune of the Power System Stabilizer (PSS). In the IABC algorithm an interactive strategy is introduced by considering the universal gravitation to the movement of onlooker bees in the original Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) to enhance exploration ability of the ABC algorithm. The robustly PSS tuning problem is formul...

The traditional BP neural network algorithm has some bugs such that it is easy to fall into local minimum and the slow convergence speed. Particle swarm optimization is an evolutionary computation technology based on swarm intelligence which can not guarantee global convergence. Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is a global optimum algorithm with many advantages such as simple, convenient and str...

Multi input multi output (MIMO) radars have multiple antenna radars that each of them can transmit signals. For that matter, to avoid interference, transmitted waveform must be mutually orthogonal. This paper has proposed a new approach by using bee algorithm (BA) and artificial bee colony (ABC) to design orthogonal discrete frequency coding waveforms (DFCWs) which have desirable autocorrelatio...

The Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) problems in power generation systems are to reduce the fuel cost by reducing the total cost for the generation of electric power. This paper presents an efficient Modified Firefly Algorithm (MFA), for solving ELD Problem. The main objective of the problems is to minimize the total fuel cost of the generating units having quadratic cost functions subjected to lim...

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is one of the popular swarm intelligence algorithms. ABC has been developed by being inspired foraging and waggle dance behaviors of real bee colonies in 2005. Since its invention in 2005, many ABC models have been proposed in order to solve different optimization problems. In all the models proposed, there are only one scout bee and a constant limit value ...

A major problem with Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is its premature convergence to local optima, which originates from lack of explorative search capability of the algorithm. This paper introduces ABC with Improved Explorations (ABC-IX), a novel algorithm that modifies both the selection and perturbation operations of the basic ABC algorithm in an explorative way. Unlike the basic ABC a...

In a global economy, an efficient supply chain as a main core competency empowers enterprises to provide products or services at the right time in the right quantity, at a low cost. This paper is to plan a single product, multi-echelon, multi-period closed loop supply chain for high-tech products (which have continuous price decrease). Ultimately, considering components rated to procurement, pr...