An enhanced artificial bee colony algorithm based on fitness weighted search strategy

Abstract

Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is a meta-heuristic algorithm, is inspired by the bee’s food search behaviour based on swarm intelligence. Successful applications were performed on many optimization problems using this algorithm rising in popularity over the past few years. The update mechanism of the ABC algorithm, despite the fact that its exploration is good, faces the problem of convergence performance. For solving convergence problem of ABC Algorithm An Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Based Fitness Weighted Search (ABCFWS) algorithm proposed in this paper. In this approach, an intelligent search space is proposed instead of the random search space of the ABC algorithm. In this method, the fitness values of the food source and the selected neighbour food source are taken as weights and a more balanced search space was found in the direction of the food source with better fitness value. The proposed method has been applied to 28 unconstrained numerical optimization test problems with different characteristics and the results were compared with the ABC algorithm variations. The results show that the proposed method is successful and competitive.