Abstract:

Since it is difficult to find all the optimal solutions for artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) used in  multimodal optimization problems, which can only find a global optimal solution, this paper presents an niche ABC. Niche technology can maintain the diversity of population, so that the algorithm will not converge to the single global optimal solution. The ABC has higher accuracy to find the characteristics of the various peaks accurately. The simulation results of five standard test functions show that the niche ABC can effectively find all of the global and local optimal solutions for the multipeak problems, and it is a good multi-peak optimization algorithm.