Analysis of Swarm Intelligence-Based Algorithms for Constrained Optimization
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2013
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Swarm intelligence refers to collective intelligence. Biologists and natural scientist have been studying the behavior of social insects due to their efficiency of solving complex problems such as finding the shortest path between their nest and food source or organizing their nests. In spite of the fact that these insects are unsophisticated individually, they make wonders as a swarm by interaction with each other and their environment. In last two decades, the behaviors of various swarms that are used in finding preys or mating are simulated into a numerical optimization technique. In this chapter, eight different swarm intelligence-based algorithms are summarized and their working steps are listed. These techniques are ant colony optimizer, particle swarm optimizer, artificial bee colony algorithm, glowworm algorithm, firefly algorithm, cuckoo search algorithm, bat algorithm, and hunting search algorithm. Two optimization problems taken from the literature are solved by all these eight algorithms and their performance are compared. It is noticed that most of the swarm intelligence-based algorithms are simple and robust techniques that determine the optimum solution of optimization problems efficiently without requiring much of a mathematical struggling. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.