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Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics Vol. 26, No. 2, April 2015, pp.388–396 Archimedean copula estimation of distribution algorithm based on artificial bee colony algorithm * Haidong Xu, Mingyan Jiang , and Kun Xu School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China Abstract: The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a com- algorithms. petitive stochastic population-based optimization algorithm. How- The ABC algorithm was proposed by Karaboga in 2005 ever, the ABC algorithm does not use the social information and [3], which is inspired by the foraging behavior of bees. lacks the knowledge of the problem structure, which leads to in- The ABC algorithm is simple and uses only common con- sufficiency in both convergent speed and searching precision. trol parameters such as the population size and the max Archimedean copula estimation of distribution algorithm (ACEDA) cycle number. Experimental results on function optimiza- is a relatively simple, time-economic and multivariate correlated EDA. This paper proposes a novel hybrid algorithm based on the tion have shown that the ABC algorithm outperforms, or ABC algorithm and ACEDA called Archimedean copula estima- at least performs as well as other well known population- tion of distribution based on the artificial bee colony (ACABC) based algorithms like GA, PSO [4,5], etc. algorithm. The hybrid algorithm utilizes ACEDA to estimate the However, there are still insufficiencies in the ABC al- d