Artificial bee colony algorithm with gene recombination for numerical function optimization

Genghui Li, Laizhong Cui, Xianghua Fu, Zhenkun Wen, Nan Lu, Jian Lu

Abstract: Highlights•An improved foraging model is designed for ABC, which can make some employed bees with high quality food source exchange information with each other.•A concreted gene recombination operator (GRO) is established by recombining the different superior genes of different good individuals for generating better offspring.•GRO is embedded into nine ABC methods for performance evaluation. The experimental results on 22 benchmark functions demonstrate that GRO could enhance the performance of ABC and ABC variants.