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Onlooker Bees: The ABC Algorithm

Satisfactory Essays

In the ABC algorithm, there are 3 flocks of bees: onlooker, employed, and scout bees. A colony consists of the onlooker bees plus the employed bees. If an employed bee abandons its food source, it becomes a scout bee. The number of solutions (population) to a problem is equal to the number of onlooker bees or employed bees. A possible solution to the optimization problem is presented by the position of a food source, and the quality (fitness) is measured with the amount of nectar of the associated food source. The number of food sources equals the number of employed bees.

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