In the basic Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm, if the fitness value associated with a food source is not improved for a certain number of specified trials then the corresponding bee becomes a scout to which a random value is assigned for finding the new food source. Basically, it is a mechanism of pulling out the candidate solution which may be entrapped in some local optimizer due to whic...

The job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) is an NP-hard problem of wide engineering and theoretical background. In this paper, a discrete artificial bee colony based memetic algorithm, named DABC, is proposed for solving JSSP. Firstly, to make artificial bee colony (ABC) suitable for solving JSSP, we present a food source as a discrete job permutation and use the discrete operation to generate a n...

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...

The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm recently gained high popularity by providing a robust and efficient approach for solving continuous optimization problems. In order to apply ABC in discrete landscape, a binary version of artificial bee colony (BABC) algorithm is proposed in this manuscript. Unlike the original ABC algorithm, the proposed BABC represents a food source as a discrete bina...

Received Oct 14,2012 Revised Jan 05, 2013 Accepted March 02,2013 In practical cases, the fuel cost of generators can be represented as a quadratic function of real power generation and satisfied constraints for minimizing of fuel cost. Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is used for the optimization of active power dispatch of generating units. The proposed method is able to determine, the ou...

The well-known artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is one of the most recently introduced swarm-based algorithms. The ABC system combines both local and global search methods in an attempt to balance exploration and exploitation processes, and hopefully, it can be successfully applied to solve real-world problems. In the past, the Science Magazine named the protein folding problem (PFP) as on...

This paper propose a new mixture method called Quantum Artificial Bee Colony (QABC) algorithm. QABC is based on some quantum computing concepts, such as qubits and superposition of states. In QABC these quantum concepts are applied on Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm. ABC is one of the recent algorithms in optimization area that has earned good popularity and some new works based on origin...

Received Oct 14,2012 Revised Jan 05, 2013 Accepted March 02,2013 In practical cases, the fuel cost of generators can be represented as a quadratic function of real power generation and satisfied constraints for minimizing of fuel cost. Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is used for the optimization of active power dispatch of generating units. The proposed method is able to determine, the ou...

This paper describes an object-oriented software system for continuous optimization by a modified artificial bee colony (ABC) metaheuristic. Karaboga’s ABC algorithm was successfully used on many optimization problems and there is also a corresponding program in C. We implemented a modified version in C# which is easier for maintenance since it is object-oriented and which uses threads and sign...

ABC (Artificial Bee Colony) algorithm is one of the most popular approaches that is used in optimization problems. ABC overcomes other well-known heuristic methods, such as GA, PSO and DE (Differential Evolution). In this paper, we propose a hybrid ABC-DE algorithm that combines properties of ABC and DE approaches. The results show that our proposed algorithm is better than both ABC and DE and ...