A Modified-ABC: An Explicit-Memory Based Approach with a New Memory Updating and Retrieval in Dynamic Environments

Abstract

The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is considered as one of the swarm intelligence optimization algorithms. It has been extensively used for the applications of static type. Many practical and real-world applications, nevertheless, are of dynamic type. Thus, it is needed to employ some optimization algorithms that could solve this group of the problems that are of dynamic type. Dynamic optimization problems in which change(s) may occur through the time are tougher to face than static optimization problems. In this paper, an approach based on the ABC algorithm enriched with explicit memory and population clustering scheme, for solving dynamic optimization problems is proposed.