A Review of Bacterial Foraging Optimization and Its Applications

Recently, germ intelligence has grabbed prime focus of research fraternity working on optimization and many such powerful algorithms have been reported till date. Of this, Bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA) has attracted a lot of attention as a high performance optimizer because of its faster convergence and global search approach. Since its inception in 2001, many variants of BFOA have come up leading to even faster convergence with higher accuracy. This paper presents an application based review of such variants and will be useful for new researchers exploring its use in their research problems.