Title
Bee colonies as model for multimodal continuous optimization: The OptBees algorithm
Abstract
This paper presents the OptBees, an optimization algorithm inspired by the processes of collective decision-making by bee colonies. The algorithm was designed with the objective of generating and maintaining diversity, promoting a multimodal search and obtaining multiple local optima without losing the ability of global optimization, thus representing an innovation compared with existent bee-inspired algorithms. It has been tested in five of the twenty-five minimization problems proposed for the Optimization Competition of Real Parameters of the CEC 2005 Special Session on Real-Parameter Optimization, held in the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). The results obtained suggest the suitability of the algorithm to exploit multimodality of problems, being successful in the generation and maintenance of diversity and achieving good quality results in global optimization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/CEC.2012.6252975
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
decision making,minimisation,search problems,2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation,CEC 2005 Special Session on Real-Parameter Optimization,OptBees optimization algorithm,Optimization Competition of Real Parameters,bee colonies,bee-inspired algorithms,collective decision-making process,diversity generation,diversity maintenance,global optimization,minimization problems,multimodal continuous optimization,multimodal search,multiple local optima,bees,collective decision-making,diversity,insects,multimodality,optimization,sociobiology
Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Metaheuristic,Continuous optimization,Mathematical optimization,Global optimization,Local optimum,Meta-optimization,Algorithm,Multi-swarm optimization,IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation,Bees algorithm,Machine learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1508-1
10
0.72
References 
Authors
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Renato Dourado Maia1354.68
de Castro, L.N.21049.46
Walmir M. Caminhas3111.42