Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Time-Varying Strategy

Algorithm 1

The pseudocode of artificial bee colony algorithm.

(1) Initialize the set of food sources , ;

(2) Evaluate each , ;

(3) while  have not found “good enough” solution or not reached the predetermined

   maximum number of iterations  do

(4)  for   to SN  do              /  Employed bees phase  /

(5)   Generate with using (2);

(6)   Evaluate ;

(7)   if    then

(8)    ;

(9)  for   to SN  do              /  Onlooker bees phase  /

(10)      Select an employed bee using (3);

(11)       Try to improve food source quality according to Steps (5)–(8);

(12)     Generate a new randomly food source for those does not improve with successive

         iterations           /  Scout bees phase  /;

(13)     Memorize the best food source achieved so far;