Improved Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm with Comprehensive Swarm Learning Strategies

• Published in: Advances in Swarm Intelligence Vol. 12145; pp. 325 - 334
• Main Authors: Gan, Xiaobing, Xiao, Baoyu
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 01.01.2020; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Bacterial foraging optimization; Comprehensive swarm learning strategies; Function optimization; Lévy flight

Bacterial foraging optimization (BFO), a novel bio-inspired heuristic optimization algorithm, has been attracted widespread attention and widely applied to various practical optimization problems. However, the standard BFO algorithm exists some potential deficiencies, such as the weakness of converg...