International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 93 - Number 9 |
Year of Publication: 2014 |
Authors: Nizar Hadi Abbas, Haitham Saadoon Aftan |
10.5120/16244-5800 |
Nizar Hadi Abbas, Haitham Saadoon Aftan . Quantum Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Numerical Function Optimization. International Journal of Computer Applications. 93, 9 ( May 2014), 28-33. DOI=10.5120/16244-5800
The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is a swarm intelligence based algorithm, which simulate the foraging behavior of honey bee colonies. It has been widely applied to solve the real-world problem. However, ABC has good exploration but poor exploitation abilities, and its convergence speed is also an issue in some cases. In order to overcome these issues, this paper presents a new metaheuristic algorithm called Quantum Artificial Bee Colony (QABC) algorithm for global optimization problems inspired by quantum physics concepts. Simulations are conducted on a suite of unimodal/multimodal continuous benchmark functions. The results demonstrate the good performance of the QABC algorithm in solving complex numerical optimization problems when compared with other popular algorithms.