Honey Bee Social Foraging Algorithms for Resource Allocation, Part II: Application

Bioinspired solutions to technological problems exploit robust and optimal solutions evolved for biological systems via natural selection. In [1] a honey bee social foraging algorithm was introduced. It was shown that if several such algorithms ("hives") compete in the same problem domain, the strategy they use is a Nash equilibrium and that the allocation strategy is globally optimal. To illustrate the practical utility of the theoretical results and algorithm in this paper we show how it can solve a dynamic voltage allocation problem to achieve a maximum uniformly elevated temperature in an interconnected grid of temperature zones.