Modified Artificial Bees Colony algorithm with Nelder-Mead search algorithm

In this paper, a new Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) called NM-ABC which integrates NM into original ABC has been developed. ABC algorithm is one of the most recent biological-inspired optimization algorithm proposed in year 2005. ABC is inspired by the foraging behavior of honey bee swarm. The exploration and exploitation are two important mechanisms in ABC. Exploitation process starts when the employed bees approach to the food sources. However, ABC can perform better during exploration stage but weaker at exploitation stage. In this study, the exploitation search stage has been integrated with Nelder-Mead Simplex Method (NM). The numerical results shown that the NM-ABC can perform better than the original ABC with less colony size and number of cycle allocated.