ABCluster: the artificial bee colony algorithm for cluster global optimization

• Published in: Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP Vol. 17; no. 37; pp. 24173 - 24181
• Main Authors: Zhang, Jun, Dolg, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.01.2015
• Subjects: Algorithms; Animals; Bees - physiology; Biomimetics; Chemists; Clusters; Forages; Functions (mathematics); Mathematical analysis; Optimization; Swarm intelligence

Global optimization of cluster geometries is of fundamental importance in chemistry and an interesting problem in applied mathematics. In this work, we introduce a relatively new swarm intelligence algorithm, i.e. the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm proposed in 2005, to this field. It is inspi...