Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is a global optimization algorithm which is motivated by the foraging behavior of honey bee swarms. Basic Artificial Bee Colony algorithm (ABC) has the advantages of strong robustness, fast convergence and high flexibility, fewer setting parameters, but it has the disadvantages premature convergence in the later search period and the accuracy of the optimal value...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) performance depends on network topology, activation function, behaviors of data, suitable synapse's values and learning algorithms. Researchers used different learning algorithms to train ANN for getting high performance. Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is one of the latest successfully Swarm Intelligence based technique for training Multilayer Perceptron ...

The performance of Neural Networks (NN) depends on network structure, activation function and suitable weight values. For finding optimal weight values, freshly, computer scientists show the interest in the study of social insect’s behavior learning algorithms. Chief among these are, Ant Colony Optimzation (ACO), Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm, Hybrid Ant Bee Colony (HABC) algorithm and ...

In this study, segmentation of medical images using a fuzzy artificial bee colony algorithm with a cooling schedule is created. In this study, we embed ed fuzzy inference strategy into the artificial bee colony system to construct a segmentation system named Fuzzy Artificial Bee Colony System (FABCS). A conventional FCM algorithm did not utilize the spatial information in the image. We set a lo...

One of the most well-known binary (discrete) versions of the artificial bee colony algorithm is the similarity measure based discrete artificial bee colony, which was first proposed to deal with the uncapacited facility location (UFLP) problem. The discrete artificial bee colony simply depends on measuring the similarity between the binary vectors through Jaccard coefficient. Although it is acc...

Designing the fuzzy controllers by using evolutionary algorithms and reinforcement learning is an important subject to control the robots. In the present article, some methods to solve reinforcement fuzzy control problems are studied. All these methods have been established by combining Fuzzy-Q Learning with an optimization algorithm. These algorithms include the Ant colony, Bee Colony and Arti...

In this paper, a novel hybrid optimization algorithm, which combines a firefly algorithms and Artificial Bee Colony algorithm (FFAABC), is proposed for solving the economic power dispatch (EPD) problem. The hybrid algorithm is structured with two stages. The first stage uses the search by firefly algorithm (FFA) and second stage is a search with Artificial Bee Colony algorithm (ABC). The hybrid...

This paper presents an artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm adjusted for the capacitated vehicle routing problem. The vehicle routing problem is an NP-hard problem and capacitated vehicle routing problem variant (CVRP) is considered here. The artificial bee metaheuristic was successfully used mostly on continuous unconstrained and constrained problems. Here this algorithm has been implemented ...

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a swarm intelligence optimization algorithm inspired by the intelligent behavior of honey bees when searching for food sources. The various versions of the ABC algorithm have been widely used to solve continuous and discrete optimization problems in different fields. In this paper a new binary version of the ABC algorithm inspired by quantum computing, c...