Multiple Food Sources for Composing Harvest Season Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm on Economic Dispatch Problem

摘要

Recent years evolutionary methods are frequent used to solve optimization problems. A novel method of this group is Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm imitated foraging behavior of honeybees in nature. Presently, the important challenges of the ABC are devoted to convergence speed, searching mechanism and real applications. As part of works to improve the ABC becomes Harvest Season Artificial Bee Colony (HSABC), this paper introduces multiple food sources for composing the HSABC applied to economic dispatch problem.