In this paper we present a modification of artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm for constrained optimization problems. In nature more than one onlooker bee goes to a promising food source reported by employed bee. Our proposed modification forms a mutant solution in onlooker phase using three onlookers. This approach obtains better results than the original artificial bee colony algorithm. Our...

The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a swarm-based metaheuristic optimization technique, developed by inspiring foraging and dance behaviors of honey bee colonies. ABC consists of four phases named as initialization, employed bee, onlooker bee and scout bee. The employed bees try to improve their solution in employed bees phase. If an employed bee cannot improve self-solution in a certa...

Software test suite optimization is one of the most important issue in software testing as testing consumes a lot of time in executing redundant test cases. In this paper, we have proposed and implemented a new approach for test suite optimization, namely, Mutated Artificial Bee Colony. Artificial Bee colony algorithm combines local search carried out by employed and onlooker bees with global s...

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...

abstract— in this paper we have tried to develop an altered version of the artificial bee colony algorithm which is inspired from and combined with the meta-heuristic algorithm of firefly. in this method, we have tried to change the main equation of searching within the original abc algorithm. on this basis, a new combined equation was used for steps of employed bees and onlooker bees. for this...

In order to solve problems of optimization, Swarm Intelligence (SI) algorithms are extensively becoming more popular. Many swarm intelligence based optimization techniques are present but most face problems like convergence problem and local minimization problem. In this paper, a hybrid optimization algorithm is proposed using fractional order Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) and Genetic Algorithm (...

Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) is a distinguished optimization strategy that can resolve nonlinear and multifaceted problems. It is comparatively a straightforward and modern population based probabilistic approach for comprehensive optimization. In the vein of the other population based algorithms, ABC is moreover computationally classy due to its slow nature of search procedure. The solution exp...

This work proposes an improved artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, called the rank-based ABC algorithm, which includes a rank-based selection mechanism in the onlooker bees phase and a modified abandonment mechanism in the scout bees phase for solving unconstrained and constrained optimization problems. In the onlooker bees phase, the probability that an onlooker bee selects a food source is...

Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is a relatively new swarm intelligence algorithm which has shown a competitive performance with respect to other population-based algorithms. However, there are still some insufficiencies in ABC algorithm such as slow convergence and easily trapped in local optima. These drawbacks can be even more challenging when constraints are also involved. To address t...