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Performance evaluation of artificial bee colony algorithm and its variants in the optimum design of steel skeletal structures

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Artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) has been efficiently used to obtain the optimum design of structures under design code limitations. There are several enhancements suggested to improve the performance of ABC even further in the literature. In this chapter, the performance of enhanced ABC variants in the optimum design of steel skeletal frames is studied. The mathematical model of such design problem when based on the provisions of design code requirements results in a discrete nonlinear programming problem. Seven variants of ABC is selected from the literature. These are standard artificial bee colony algorithm (sABC), artificial bee colony algorithm with orthogonal learning (OCABC), quick artificial bee colony algorithm (qABC), noel chaotic artificial bee colony algorithm (STOC-BC), directed artificial bee colony algorithm (dABC), improved artificial bee colony algorithm (NSABC) and artificial bee colony algorithm with Levy flight distribution (ABC_Levy). Seven optimum design algorithms are developed to obtain the solution of the design problem formulated considering design code provisions. Two steel space frames, one ten story and the other fifteen story are optimized using each of the seven optimum design techniques. The performance of each variant is observed and the optimum designs are compared. It is noticed after carrying out the statistical analysis that ABC_Levy and qABC algorithms outperform the other algorithms.

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Saka, M.P., Aydogdu, I. Performance evaluation of artificial bee colony algorithm and its variants in the optimum design of steel skeletal structures. Asian J Civ Eng 22, 73–91 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42107-020-00299-z

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