A Novel Combination of Bees and Firefly Algorithm to Optimize Continuous Problems

Although Bees algorithm (BA) has presented great performance so far in optimizing different problems, it still has weak convergence rate in some optimizations. Therefore, in this investigation in order to resolve its weakness and boost the exploitation of algorithm, it was hybridized by Firefly algorithm (FA). The hybrid bees and firefly algorithm (BA-FA) was implemented on twelve numerical benchmark functions to evaluate it. The BA-FA was also compared with four famous algorithms, including particle swarm optimization (PSO), invasive weed optimization (IWO) and so on. The results showed that BA-FA had the best performance and convergence in optimizing the mentioned functions.