具有自适应全局最优引导快速搜索策略的人工蜂群算法

针对人工蜂群算法存在开发与探索能力不平衡的缺点,提出了具有自适应全局最优引导快速搜索策略的改进算法.在该策略中,首先采蜜蜂利用自适应搜索方程平衡了不同搜索方法的探索和开发能力;其次跟随蜂利用全局最优引导邻域搜索方程对蜜源进行精细化搜索,以提高其收敛精度和全局搜索能力.14个标准测试函数的仿真结果表明,相比其他算法,所提出的改进算法有效平衡了算法的开发与探索能力,并提高了其最优解的精度及收敛速度.     

增强开发能力的改进人工蜂群算法

为解决人工蜂群（ABC）算法收敛速度慢、精度不高和易于陷入局部最优等问题，提出一种增强开发能力的改进人工蜂群算法。一方面，将得出的最优解以两种方式直接引入雇佣蜂搜索公式中，通过最优解指导雇佣蜂的邻域搜索行为，以增强算法的开发或局部搜索能力；另一方面，在旁观蜂搜索公式中结合当前解及其随机邻域进行搜索，以改善算法的全局优化能力。对多个常用基准测试函数的仿真实验结果表明，在收敛速度、精度和全局优化能力等方面，所提算法总体上优于其他类似的ABC算法（例如ABC/best）和集成多种搜索策略的ABC算法（例如ABCVSS（ABC algorithm with Variable Search Strategy）和ABCMSSCE（ABC algorithm with Multi-Search Strategy Cooperative Evolutionary））。     

Gaussian bare-bones artificial bee colony algorithm

As a relatively new global optimization technique, artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm becomes popular in recent years for its simplicity and effectiveness. However, there is still an inefficiency in ABC regarding its solution search equation, which is good at exploration but poor at exploitation. To overcome this drawback, a Gaussian bare-bones ABC is proposed, where a new search equation is designed based on utilizing the global best solution. Furthermore, we employ the generalized opposition-based learning strategy to generate new food sources for scout bees, which is beneficial to discover more useful information for guiding search. A comprehensive set of experiments is conducted on 23 benchmark functions and a real-world optimization problem to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Some well-known ABC variants and state-of-the-art evolutionary algorithms are used for comparison. The experimental results show that the proposed approach offers higher solution quality and faster convergence speed.     

Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based on Adaptive Search Equation and Extended Memory

From the perspective of psychology, a modified artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC, for short) based on adaptive search equation and extended memory (ABCEM, for short) for global optimization is proposed in this paper. In the proposed ABCEM algorithm, an extended memory factor is introduced into store employed bees’ and onlooker bees’ historical information comprising recent food sources, personal best food sources, and global best food sources, and the solution search equation for the employed bees is equipped with adaptive ability. Moreover, a parameter is employed to describe the importance of the extended memory. Furthermore, the extended memory is added to two solution search equations for the employed bees and the onlookers to improve the quality of food source. To evaluate the proposed algorithm, experiments are conducted on a set of numerical benchmark functions. The results show that the proposed algorithm can balance the exploration and exploitation, and can improve the accuracy of optima solutions and convergence speed compared with other current improved ABCs for global optimization in most of the tested functions.     

A modified artificial bee colony algorithm

Artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) is a relatively new optimization technique which has been shown to be competitive to other population-based algorithms. However, there is still an insufficiency in ABC regarding its solution search equation, which is good at exploration but poor at exploitation. Inspired by differential evolution (DE), we propose an improved solution search equation, which is based on that the bee searches only around the best solution of the previous iteration to improve the exploitation. Then, in order to make full use of and balance the exploration of the solution search equation of ABC and the exploitation of the proposed solution search equation, we introduce a selective probability P and get the new search mechanism. In addition, to enhance the global convergence, when producing the initial population, both chaotic systems and opposition-based learning methods are employed. The new search mechanism together with the proposed initialization makes up the modified ABC (MABC for short), which excludes the probabilistic selection scheme and scout bee phase. Experiments are conducted on a set of 28 benchmark functions. The results demonstrate good performance of MABC in solving complex numerical optimization problems when compared with two ABC-based algorithms.     

Lévy flight artificial bee colony algorithm

Artificial bee colony (ABC) optimisation algorithm is a relatively simple and recent population-based probabilistic approach for global optimisation. The solution search equation of ABC is significantly influenced by a random quantity which helps in exploration at the cost of exploitation of the search space. In the ABC, there is a high chance to skip the true solution due to its large step sizes. In order to balance between diversity and convergence in the ABC, a Lévy flight inspired search strategy is proposed and integrated with ABC. The proposed strategy is named as Lévy Flight ABC (LFABC) has both the local and global search capability simultaneously and can be achieved by tuning the Lévy flight parameters and thus automatically tuning the step sizes. In the LFABC, new solutions are generated around the best solution and it helps to enhance the exploitation capability of ABC. Furthermore, to improve the exploration capability, the numbers of scout bees are increased. The experiments on 20 test problems of different complexities and five real-world engineering optimisation problems show that the proposed strategy outperforms the basic ABC and recent variants of ABC, namely, Gbest-guided ABC, best-so-far ABC and modified ABC in most of the experiments.     

一种强化互学习的人工蜂群算法

为了解决基本蜂群算法存在的收敛速度慢、易陷入局部最优等问题,并提高算法在探索和开发方面的寻优性能,提出一种改进的蜂群算法,称为强化互学习的人工蜂群算法（EMLABC）,针对不同种类蜜蜂分别采用不同的搜索策略,首先对于雇佣蜂通过采用提高交叉变动学习频率以及同时面向多个较优近邻学习的机制来增强算法的全局探索能力并且避免早熟;其次针对跟随蜂采用深化的互学习策略,使新生子代保持倾向于在潜在更优区域进行搜索,进而提高算法的收敛性能和精度。在16个标准测试集函数和基本蜂群算法以及最近几个变种进行对比测试,结果表明EMLABC在收敛速度、准确寻优能力和稳定性上都有显著的提升。     

多选择背包问题的人工蜂群算法*

多选择背包问题是组合优化中的NP难题之一,采用一种新的智能优化算法——人工蜂群算法进行求解。该算法通过雇佣蜂、跟随蜂和侦察蜂的局部寻优来实现全局最优。基于算法实现的核心思想,用MATLAB编程实现,对参考文献的算例进行仿真测试。与其他算法进行了比较,获得了满意的结果。这说明了算法在解决该问题上的可行性与有效性,拓展了人工蜂群算法的应用领域。     

自扰动人工蜂群算法

人工蜂群(Artificial Bee Colony,ABC)算法是一种模仿蜂群寻找蜜源的新型算法,因具有参数简单、灵活性强等优点而被广泛用于解决工程问题。但该算法在早熟、收敛速度慢和个体越界等缺点。为此,提出一种自扰动人工蜂群算法(Novel Artificial Bee Algorithm with Adaptive Disturbance,IGABC)。该算法采用轴对称策略处理蜂群中的越界个体,提高了算法的搜索效率。通过改进全局搜索方程的结构,同时加入带阈值的线性递增策略,提出一种全新的自适应搜索方程。自适应搜索方程提高了算法的收敛精度并加快了速度。为了获得更好的全局最优解,提出一种自扰动方法对全局最优解进行扰动。选取18个基准测试函数以及近4年提出的6个改进ABC算法进行对比实验,结果表明,该算法在收敛速度和精度上均有较大的优势,尤其在处理Rosenbrock等很难寻优的复杂函数时,收敛精度提高了16个数量级。     

受粒子群和差分进化启发的人工蜂群算法

针对基本人工蜂群算法搜索策略探索能力强而开发能力弱的特点,受粒子群和差分进化思想的启发,提出了两种新的搜索策略：PSO-DE-PABC和PSO-DE-GABC。前者在随机个体附近产生新的候选位置以提高算法的多样性;后者在最优解附近产生新的候选位置以提高算法的收敛速度,并加入差分进化中的差异向量来增加种群的多样性。在此基础上,引入维度因子来控制算法的收敛速度,并且使用一种利用当前种群信息的侦查策略来增强算法的局部搜索能力。通过对10组标准测试函数的实验仿真并与基本ABC、GABC和ABC/best算法相比,结果表明PSO-DE-GABC和PSO-DE-PABC对数值优化具有更高的收敛速度和收敛精度。     

基于搜索能力均衡的人工蜂群算法

鉴于标准人工蜂群算法（ABC）局部开发能力不足,提出一种改进搜索策略的人工蜂群算法（IABC）。为提高ABC的局部开发能力,在其雇佣蜂阶段引入了一个新的具有最好个体引导的解搜索方程,为均衡ABC的搜索能力,在ABC跟随蜂阶段的搜索策略中引入了新的随机因素以增强ABC的全局探索能力,为了进一步平衡全局探索和局部开发能力,改进了ABC的侦察蜂搜索机制。为验证IABC的收敛效果,通过在12个复杂基准测试函数上的仿真实验并与其他算法相比较,发现IABC的收敛性能有显著提高。     

An efficient and robust artificial bee colony algorithm for numerical optimization

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm has already shown more effective than other population-based algorithms. However, ABC is good at exploration but poor at exploitation, which results in an issue on convergence performance in some cases. To improve the convergence performance of ABC, an efficient and robust artificial bee colony (ERABC) algorithm is proposed. In ERABC, a combinatorial solution search equation is introduced to accelerate the search process. And in order to avoid being trapped in local minima, chaotic search technique is employed on scout bee phase. Meanwhile, to reach a kind of sustainable evolutionary ability, reverse selection based on roulette wheel is applied to keep the population diversity. In addition, to enhance the global convergence, chaotic initialization is used to produce initial population. Finally, experimental results tested on 23 benchmark functions show that ERABC has a very good performance when compared with two ABC-based algorithms.     

协调探索和开发能力的改进灰狼优化算法

提出一种协调探索和开发能力的灰狼优化算法.利用佳点集方法初始化灰狼个体的位置,为全局搜索多样性奠定基础;为协调算法的全局探索和局部开发能力,给出一种基于正切三角函数描述的非线性动态变化控制参数;为加快算法的收敛速度,受粒子群优化算法个体记忆功能的启发,设计一种新的个体位置更新公式.10个标准函数的测试结果表明,改进灰狼优化(IGWO)算法能够有效地协调其对问题搜索空间的探索和开发能力.     

基于精英蜂群搜索策略的人工蜂群算法

针对人工蜂群(ABC)算法存在收敛速度慢、求解精度不高、容易陷入局部最优等问题,利用蜂群觅食过程中先由侦察蜂进行四处侦察食物,并利用蜂群搜索构建精英群体指导蜂群觅食寻优。据此,提出了一种模拟侦察蜂侦察觅食行为的基于精英蜂群搜索策略的连续优化算法。算法利用构建精英蜂群策略、改进侦察蜂搜索机制以及基于目标函数值选择寻优三个主要策略加强算法的搜索机制。数值实验表明,所提算法不仅寻优精度和寻优率非常高,且收敛速度快,并能适于高维空间的优化问题。     

具有角色转换的自适应人工蜂群算法

提出一种具有引领蜂与跟随蜂动态协调机制的改进人工蜂群算法（DHABC）。根据优化函数的寻优状态,设计了引领蜂与跟随蜂动态角色转换机制,以更好地适应全局和局部搜索;为使算法能够更好地进行局部兼顾更大范围搜索,设计了引领蜂与跟随蜂间位置信息的共享方式;为提高算法的求解速度,设计了跟随蜂进化代数起始值的计算方法;通过仿真和比较实验,改进算法较其他ABC改进算法及其他智能优化算法既参数少,便于应用,又求解精度较高。     

Memetic search in artificial bee colony algorithm

Artificial bee colony (ABC) optimization algorithm is relatively a simple and recent population based probabilistic approach for global optimization. ABC has been outperformed over some Nature Inspired Algorithms (NIAs) when tested over benchmark as well as real world optimization problems. The solution search equation of ABC is significantly influenced by a random quantity which helps in exploration at the cost of exploitation of the search space. In the solution search equation of ABC, there is a enough chance to skip the true solution due to large step size. In order to balance between diversity and convergence capability of the ABC, a new local search phase is integrated with the basic ABC to exploit the search space identified by the best individual in the swarm. In the proposed phase, ABC works as a local search algorithm in which, the step size that is required to update the best solution, is controlled by Golden Section Search approach. The proposed strategy is named as Memetic ABC (MeABC). In MeABC, new solutions are generated around the best solution and it helps to enhance the exploitation capability of ABC. MeABC is established as a modified ABC algorithm through experiments over 20 test problems of different complexities and 4 well known engineering optimization problems.     

基于向量整体扰动的快速收敛人工蜂群算法

针对标准人工蜂群算法收敛速度慢和易陷入早熟收敛等问题,提出一种快速收敛人工蜂群算法。首先借助反向学习理论初始化种群来提高初始解的分布质量,并在雇佣蜂和跟随蜂阶段引入向量整体扰动搜索方程加快局部搜索;然后为了跳出局部最优,采用一种随机更新搜索策略来增加蜂群多样性以平衡全局探索和局部利用能力;最后通过八个标准测试函数的仿真实验,发现所提出的算法与几个改进的人工蜂群算法相比,具有更快的收敛速度且获得了更高的求解精度,验证了算法的优越性。     

改进搜索策略的人工蜂群算法

针对人工蜂群(ABC)算法存在收敛速度慢、收敛精度低的问题,给出一种改进的人工蜂群算法用于数值函数优化问题。在ABC的邻域搜索公式中利用目标函数自适应调整步长,并根据迭代次数非线性减小侦查蜂的搜索范围。改进ABC算法提高了ABC算法的局部搜索能力,能够有效避免早熟收敛。基于6个标准测试函数的仿真实验表明,改进ABC算法的寻优能力有较大提高,对于多个高维多模态函数该算法可取得理论全局最优解。与对比算法相比,该算法具有更高的收敛精度,并且收敛速度更快。     

一种求解高维约束优化问题的人工蜂群算法*

针对求解高维约束优化中算法的收敛速度和解的精度不高的缺点,提出一种改进的人工蜂群约束优化算法。该算法在初始化种群和侦察蜂探寻新蜜源时采用了正交实验设计方法,并在采蜜蜂搜索时使用了改进的高斯分布估计,跟随蜂按照采蜜蜂的适应值大小选择一个采蜜蜂,在其蜜源领域内采用差异算法搜索新的蜜源;在处理约束条件时采用自适应优劣解比较方法。最后通过13个标准的Benchmark测试函数进行仿真实验,结果表明该算法在处理高维约束优化问题时具有较好的收敛性和稳定性。     

An improved krill herd algorithm with global exploration capability for solving numerical function optimization problems and its application to data clustering

Krill herd algorithm is a stochastic nature-inspired algorithm for solving optimization problems. The performance of krill herd algorithm is degraded by poor exploitation capability. In this study, we propose an improved krill herd algorithm (IKH) by making the krill the global search capability. The enhancement comprises of adding global search operator for exploration around the defined search region and thus the krill individuals move towards the global best solution. The elitism strategy is also applied to maintain the best krill during the krill update steps. The proposed method is tested on a set of twenty six well-known benchmark functions and is compared with thirteen popular optimization algorithms, including original KH algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed method produced very accurate results than KH and other compared algorithms and is more robust. In addition, the proposed method has high convergence rate. The high performance of the proposed algorithm is then employed for data clustering problems and is tested using six real datasets available from UCI machine learning laboratory. The experimental results thus show that the proposed algorithm is well suited for solving even data clustering problems.