Artificial Bee Colony Programming Made Faster

The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a stochastic, population-based evolutionary method that can be applied to a wide range of problems, including global optimization. The paper proposes a variation on the traditional ABC algorithm, called the artificial bee colony programming, or ABCP, employing randomized distribution, bit hyper-mutation and a novel crossover operator to significantly improve the performance of the original algorithm. Application of the new ABC algorithm on fifteen benchmark optimization problems shows a marked improvement in performance over the traditional ABC.