Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Self-Adaptive Extended Memory

To solve the problem of the poor solution precision and convergence speed in the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, in this article we propose a modified algorithm called ABC algorithm with self-adaptive extended memory (ABCSEM) algorithm. First, the extended memory is introduced to store employed bees’ historical information comprising recent food sources, personal best food sources, and global best food sources. Furthermore, the extended memory is added to the solution search equation to improve the exploitation capability. Experimental results conducted on a set of numerical benchmark functions show that the ABCSEM algorithm can outperform the ABC algorithm in most of the tested functions.     

An Artificial Bee Colony algorithm with guide of global & local optima and asynchronous scaling factors for numerical optimization

Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is a wildly used optimization algorithm. However, ABC is excellent in exploration but poor in exploitation. To improve the convergence performance of ABC and establish a better searching mechanism for the global optimum, an improved ABC algorithm is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the proposed algorithm integrates the information of previous best solution into the search equation for employed bees and global best solution into the update equation for onlooker bees to improve the exploitation. Secondly, for a better balance between the exploration and exploitation of search, an S-type adaptive scaling factors are introduced in employed bees’ search equation. Furthermore, the searching policy of scout bees is modified. The scout bees need update food source in each cycle in order to increase diversity and stochasticity of the bees and mitigate stagnation problem. Finally, the improved algorithms is compared with other two improved ABCs and three recent algorithms on a set of classical benchmark functions. The experimental results show that the our proposed algorithm is effective and robust and outperform than other algorithms.     

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。     

An improved artificial bee colony algorithm based on the strategy of global reconnaissance

The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a recently introduced swarm intelligence optimization algorithm based on the foraging behavior of a honeybee colony. However, many problems are encountered in the ABC algorithm, such as premature convergence and low solution precision. Moreover, it can easily become stuck at local optima. The scout bees start to search for food sources randomly and then they share nectar information with other bees. Thus, this paper proposes a global reconnaissance foraging swarm optimization algorithm that mimics the intelligent foraging behavior of scouts in nature. First, under the new scouting search strategies, the scouts conduct global reconnaissance around the assigned subspace, which is effective to avoid premature convergence and local optima. Second, the scouts guide other bees to search in the neighborhood by applying heuristic information about global reconnaissance. The cooperation between the honeybees will contribute to the improvement of optimization performance and solution precision. Finally, the prediction and selection mechanism is adopted to further modify the search strategies of the employed bees and onlookers. Therefore, the search performance in the neighborhood of the local optimal solution is enhanced. The experimental results conducted on 52 typical test functions show that the proposed algorithm is more effective in avoiding premature convergence and improving solution precision compared with some other ABCs and several state-of-the-art algorithms. Moreover, this algorithm is suitable for optimizing high-dimensional space optimization problems, with very satisfactory outcomes.     

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.     

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.     

A recombination-based hybridization of particle swarm optimization and artificial bee colony algorithm for continuous optimization problems

This paper presents a hybridization of particle swarm optimization (PSO) and artificial bee colony (ABC) approaches, based on recombination procedure. The PSO and ABC are population-based iterative methods. While the PSO directly uses the global best solution of the population to determine new positions for the particles at the each iteration, agents (employed, onlooker and scout bees) of the ABC do not directly use this information but the global best solution in the ABC is stored at the each iteration. The global best solutions obtained by the PSO and ABC are used for recombination, and the solution obtained from this recombination is given to the populations of the PSO and ABC as the global best and neighbor food source for onlooker bees, respectively. Information flow between particle swarm and bee colony helps increase global and local search abilities of the hybrid approach which is referred to as Hybrid approach based on Particle swarm optimization and Artificial bee colony algorithm, HPA for short. In order to test the performance of the HPA algorithm, this study utilizes twelve basic numerical benchmark functions in addition to CEC2005 composite functions and an energy demand estimation problem. The experimental results obtained by the HPA are compared with those of the PSO and ABC. The performance of the HPA is also compared with that of other hybrid methods based on the PSO and ABC. The experimental results show that the HPA algorithm is an alternative and competitive optimizer for continuous optimization problems.     

基于分段搜索策略的自适应差分进化人工蜂群算法

针对人工蜂群算法在求解函数优化问题时存在的探索能力强,而开发能力不足和收敛性能差的问题,本文提出一种基于分段搜索策略的自适应差分进化人工蜂群算法。该算法将改进后的差分进化算法中的变异操作引入到观察蜂的局部搜索策略中,让观察蜂在雇佣蜂逐维变异后的当前最优解周围进行局部搜索,并采用分段搜索的方式更新蜜源,以提高其局部搜索能力。仿真实验结果表明,与基本人工蜂群算法相比,改进后的算法有效地平衡了算法的探索能力和开发能力,并提高了算法的寻优精度和收敛速度。     

引入跟踪搜索和免疫选择的人工蜂群算法

针对人工蜂群算法中食物源更新和观察蜂选择食物源机制存在的缺点,提出一种具有跟踪搜索和免疫选择的人工蜂群算法。在原搜索方法基础上,引入跟踪全局最优解和随机选择解的搜索方法,选择搜索到的最优解作为候选解,以加快种群的收敛速度,提高算法的收敛性;在观察蜂选择食物源时,引入免疫系统的抗体浓度调节机制,以维持种群的多样性,提高算法的全局搜索能力。对6个经典测试函数的仿真计算结果表明,与ABC、GABC、RABC和TABC算法相比,改进算法在寻优精度、收敛性能方面具有较明显的优势。     

具有自适应趋向性和引导因子的人工蜂群算法

针对人工蜂群算法中存在的收敛速度慢、寻优精度低的问题,提出了一种改进的人工蜂群算法。该算法将自适应趋向性加入雇佣蜂的搜索方案中,同时在观察蜂的搜索方案中加入引导因子。通过雇佣蜂对优秀蜜源的动态趋向搜索以及观察蜂在引导因子引领下的协同搜索,显著提高了算法的局部搜索能力。基于八个标准测试函数的仿真结果表明,与基本人工蜂群算法相比,改进后的算法在寻优精度和收敛速度方面均有明显提升。     

蜂群—蚁群自适应优化算法*

为了解决蚁群算法在求解连续函数优化问题时,存在局部搜索能力较差的缺陷,提出一种新颖的自适应蜂群—蚁群优化算法。新算法在蚁群优化算法的基础上,设计了一种参数q的自适应机制,进而减少了参数个数,提高了其鲁棒性;根据蜂群算法基本思想,利用雇佣蜂和观察蜂设计了高效的局部搜索算子,从而提升了算法的局部能力。针对五个标准测试函数的仿真实验结果表明:与蚁群优化算法相比,新算法的全局和局部寻优能力均得到了极大的提升。     

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。     

VARIANCE-BASED HARMONY SEARCH ALGORITHM FOR UNIMODAL AND MULTIMODAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS WITH APPLICATION TO CLUSTERING

This article presents a novel variance-based harmony search algorithm (VHS) for solving optimization problems. VHS incorporates the concepts borrowed from the invasive weed optimization technique to improve the performance of the harmony search algorithm (HS). This eliminates the main problem of constant parameter setting in the algorithm proposed recently and named as explorative HS. It uses the variance of a current population as well as presents a solution vector to improvise the harmony memory. In addition, the dynamic pitch adjustment operator is used to avoid solution oscillation. The proposed algorithm is evaluated on 14 standard benchmark functions of various characteristics. The performance of the proposed algorithm is investigated and compared with classical HS, an improved version of HS, the global best HS, self-adaptive HS, explorative HS, and the recently proposed state-of-art gravitational search algorithm. Experimental results reveal that the proposed algorithm outperforms the above-mentioned approaches. The effects of scalability, noise, harmony memory size, and harmony memory consideration rate have also been investigated with the proposed algorithm. The proposed algorithm is then employed for a data clustering problem. Four real-life datasets selected from the UCI machine learning repository have been used. The results indicate that the VHS-based clustering outperforms the existing well-known clustering algorithms.     

分阶段搜索的改进人工蜂群算法

针对人工蜂群(ABC)及其改进算法在求解高维复杂函数优化问题时,存在求解精度低、收敛速度慢、易陷入局部寻优且改进算法控制参数多的不足,提出一种分阶段搜索的改进人工蜂群算法。该算法设计了分阶段雇佣蜂搜索策略,使雇佣蜂在不同阶段具备不同的搜索特点,降低了算法陷入局部极值的概率;定义逃逸半径,使其能够更好地指导早熟个体跳出局部极值,避免了逃逸行为的盲目性;同时,采用均匀分布结合反向学习的初始化策略,促使初始解分布均匀且质量较优。通过对优化问题中8个典型高维复杂函数的仿真实验结果表明,该改进算法求解精度更高,收敛速度更快,更加适合高维复杂函数求解。     

混沌精英池协同教与学改进的ChOA及其应用

针对黑猩猩优化算法存在全局搜索能力弱、寻优精度低、收敛速度慢等问题,提出一种混沌精英池协同教与学改进的黑猩猩优化算法（chimp optimization algorithm improved by the elite chaos pool collaborative teachinglearning,ECTChOA）。采用混沌精英池策略生成初始种群,增强初始解的质量和种群的多样性,为算法全局寻优奠定基础;引入自适应振荡因子平衡ChOA的全局探索和局部开发能力;结合教与学优化算法的教学阶段和粒子群优化算法的个体记忆思想优化种群位置更新过程,提高算法的寻优精度和收敛速度。仿真实验将ECTChOA与标准ChOA、其他元启发式优化算法和最新改进ChOA在12个基准测试函数下进行寻优对比,实验结果与Wilcoxon秩和检验p值结果均表明所提改进算法具有更高搜索精度、更快的收敛速度和更好的鲁棒性。另外,将ECTChOA应用于机械工程设计案例中,进一步验证ECTChOA在实际工程问题中的可行性和适用性。     

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。     

增强寻优能力的自适应人工蜂群算法*

针对人工蜂群算法在求解函数优化问题中存在收敛精度不高、收敛速度较慢的问题,提出了一种改进的增强寻优能力的自适应人工蜂群算法。该算法利用逻辑自映射函数产生混沌序列对雇佣蜂搜索行为进行混沌优化,并引入萤火虫算法中的自适应步长策略动态调整观察蜂的搜索行为,从而提升了算法的局部搜索能力。基于标准测试函数的仿真结果表明,改进后的人工蜂群算法在寻优精度和收敛速度上均有明显提高。     

改进的人工蜂群算法在函数优化问题中的应用

人工蜂群算法是近年来新提出的一种优化算法。针对标准人工蜂群算法的局部搜索能力差,精度低的缺点,提出了一个改进的人工蜂群算法,利用全局最优解和个体极值的信息来改进人工蜂群算法中的搜索模式,并引入异步变化学习因子,保持全局搜索和局部搜索的平衡。将改进的人工蜂群算法在函数优化问题上进行测试,结果表明改进的人工蜂群算法优于原算法。     

A discrete artificial bee colony algorithm for the lot-streaming flow shop scheduling problem

In this paper, a discrete artificial bee colony (DABC) algorithm is proposed to solve the lot-streaming flow shop scheduling problem with the criterion of total weighted earliness and tardiness penalties under both the idling and no-idling cases. Unlike the original ABC algorithm, the proposed DABC algorithm represents a food source as a discrete job permutation and applies discrete operators to generate new neighboring food sources for the employed bees, onlookers and scouts. An efficient initialization scheme, which is based on the earliest due date (EDD), the smallest slack time on the last machine (LSL) and the smallest overall slack time (OSL) rules, is presented to construct the initial population with certain quality and diversity. In addition, a self adaptive strategy for generating neighboring food sources based on insert and swap operators is developed to enable the DABC algorithm to work on discrete/combinatorial spaces. Furthermore, a simple but effective local search approach is embedded in the proposed DABC algorithm to enhance the local intensification capability. Through the analysis of experimental results, the highly effective performance of the proposed DABC algorithm is shown against the best performing algorithms from the literature.