Heuristic-Based Firefly Algorithm for Bound Constrained Nonlinear Binary Optimization

Algorithm 3

HBFA with mBS.

Data: , ,

Set  ;

Randomly generate , ;

Discretize position of firefly : , ;

Compute , rank fireflies (from lowest to largest );

while    and   do

  forall    such that   do

    forall    such that   do

     Compute randomization term;

     Compute attractiveness based on distance ;

     Move binary position of firefly towards  

     using ;

     Discretize position of firefly : ;

  Compute , rank fireflies (from lowest to largest  );

  Set ;