Improving Bees Algorithm Using
Gradual Search Space Reduction
Abstract The aim of this research is to propose a new technique to improve Bees Algorithm. Bees Algorithm is one of the well-known metaheuristic optimization method which have been subject to several attempts to improve it by overcoming some of the weaknesses. The suggested method is derived from the numerical optimization methods, namely bracketing and region elimination methods. It employs an adaption of the regional elimination method to achieve abandonment and reduction of search space within the Bees Algorithm. The utilization of the exhaustive search involves exploring the whole search space to find the optimum at equally located intervals. To assess performance, the proposed method was evaluated on twenty-four benchmark functions and two engineering problems. The acquired result indicated a statistically significant improvement.