IMPROVED SEARCH MECHANISM IN ABC AND ITS APPLICATION IN ENGINEERING DESIGN PROBLEMS
Tarun Kumar Sharma, Millie Pant · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2015
ABC (Artificial Bee Colony) is one of the most recent nature inspired algorithm (NIA) based on swarming metaphor. Proposed by Karaboga in 2005, ABC has proven to be a robust and efficient algorithm for solving global optimization problems over continuous space. In this paper, we propose a modified version of the ABC. In modified version called Dichotomous ABC (DABC), the idea is to move dichotomously in both directions to generate a new trial point. The results of a trade study carried out on three classical structural optimization problems taken from literature indicate the validity of the proposed algorithm.