Honey bee social foraging algorithm for resource allocation

Abstract

Bioinspired mechanisms are an emerging area in the field of optimization, and various algorithms have been developed in the last decade. We introduce a novel bioinspired model based on the social behavior of honey bees during the foraging process, and we show how this algorithm solves a class of dynamic resource allocation problems. To illustrate the practical utility of the algorithm, we show how it can be used to solve a dynamic voltage allocation problem to achieve a maximum uniform temperature in a multizone temperature grid. Its behavior is compared with other evolutionary algorithms.