Artificial bee colony optimization (ABC) Optimization Foundations
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Definition: A population-based, swarm-inspired optimization algorithm that mimics the food-foraging behavior of honey bee colonies; it combines neighborhood search with global search and is used for combinatorial and continuous optimization [Bakanach 2023/2024].
Example in context: “Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm (ABC) (Jacob and Darney 2021) realizes the sharing and communication of information among individuals when bees collect honey according to their respective division of labor.” [Jia et al. 2024]
Synonym: ABC, bees algorithm
Related terms: swarm-based metaheuristic, foraging-based optimization