The Bees Algorithm
A population-based search algorithm inspired by the food foraging behavior of honey bee colonies, developed by Pham, Ghanbarzadeh et al. in 2005. It is designed to solve optimization problems, which can be either combinatorial or continuous in nature.
Areas of application
- Combinatorial optimization
- Continuous optimization
- Scheduling problems
- Resource allocation
- Complex systems
Example
The Bees Algorithm was used to solve a complex scheduling problem in a manufacturing plant, where the goal was to minimize the total processing time while satisfying constraints on due dates and resource availability.