Artificial bee colony algorithm based on uniform local search

Abstract

Although Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is simple and efficient, it also has some disadvantages too. For example, the ABC is good at exploration but poor at exploitation and easily falls into local optimum. In order to overcome these shortcomings and improve the efficiency of the algorithm, the Uniform Local Search Artificial Bee Colony (UGABC) algorithm has been proposed in this paper. The algorithm greatly improves the exploitation ability. For the purpose of comparison, we used four algorithms to experiment. The experimental results show that the UGABC has the best accuracy and the fastest convergence rate among four algorithms.