This paper discusses an approach to generate test data for path coverage based testing using Genetic Algorithms, Differential Evolution and Artificial Bee Colony optimization algorithms. Control flow graph and cyclomatic complexity of the example program has been used to find out the number of feasible paths present in the program and it is compared with the actual no of paths covered by the ev...

In this work, a Multi-Level Artificial Bee Colony (called MLABC) for optimizing numerical test functions is presented. In MLABC, two species are used. The first species employs n colonies where each of them optimizes the complete solution vector. The cooperation between these colonies is carried out by exchanging information through a leader co lony, which contain s a set of elite bees. The sec...

Data with categorical attributes are ubiquitous in the real world. However, existing partitional clustering algorithms for categorical data are prone to fall into local optima. To address this issue, in this paper we propose a novel clustering algorithm, ABC-K-Modes (Artificial Bee Colony clustering based on K-Modes), based on the traditional k-modes clustering algorithm and the artificial bee ...

With more and more various systems in nature and society are proved to be modeled as complex networks, community detection in complex networks as a fundamental problem becomes a hot research topic in a large scale of subjects. Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm (ABC) has high efficiency and does not require any prior knowledge about the number or the original division of the communities. So it is ...

This paper presents a new approach for solving the Combined Heat and Economic Dispatch (CHPED) problem using an artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC). Artificial Bee Colony algorithm (ABC) is inspired by the foraging behavior of honey bee swarm, is a biological inspired optimization. It shows more effective than the other optimization algorithms. The performance of the proposed algorithm ABC is...

The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is an evolutionary optimization based on swarm intelligence and inspired by the honey bees’ food search behavior. Since ABC has been developed to achieve optimal solutions searching in continuous space, modification required apply it binary problems. In this study, we modify solve problems name improved (IbinABC). proposed method consists of update mech...

Artificial bee colony algorithms belong to the paradigm of bio-inspired, population-based, algorithms that have been widely used to solve optimization problems. These algorithms use population of individuals/particles/bees/ants in order to explore a search space of potential solutions to a given problem and to be able to quickly converge to a global solution, or at least to a good solution. The...

An enhanced Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) optimization algorithm, which is called the Interactive Artificial Bee Colony (IABC) optimization, for numerical optimization problems, is proposed in this paper. The onlooker bee is designed to move straightly to the picked coordinate indicated by the employed bee and evaluates the fitness values near it in the original Artificial Bee Colony algorithm in...

The idea behind this work is to solve the Shortest Common Supersequence by using Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) Algorithm. This algorithm is considered as one of the newest nature-inspired swarm-based optimization algorithms and has a promising performance [6]. Shortest Common Supersequence is a classical problem in the field of strings and it is classified as NP-Hard problem [12]. Many algorithms...