期刊名称：International Journal of Soft Computing & Engineering
电子版ISSN：2231-2307
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
期号：5
页码：105-110
出版社：International Journal of Soft Computing & Engineering
摘要：Bees Algorithm (BA) is a population-based algorithm inspired by the honey bees forage for food. The algorithm presents a neighbourhood search associated with a random search which can be used for optimisation problems. In the basic version of BA, when a bee finds a food source, it returns to the hive and shares the information with other bees. Later, the bees will decide how many of them should fly towards the food source, depending on its quality (the quality represents the fitness value). In this paper, we have proposed to investigate the using of BA for examination timetabling problems, in addition a modification on the algorithm has been applied by replacing the fitness value by probability value. Experimental results indicate that the proposed approach produces promising results in solving examination timetabling problems and also show that the modified bees’ algorithm outperforms the basic bees algorithm when tested on the same problems.
