Honey bee colonies depend on pollen and nectar from flowers for their feed. The act of searching this by the bees is called foraging. foraging behaviour depends profitability sources as well needs colony. This modeled into an algorithm Foraging Bee Optimization Algorithm (FBA). After initialization, loops through three phases based bees’ nature 3W: Waggle, Work, Withdraw. A large number are ini...

Damping of low frequency electromechanical oscillations is very important for a safe system operation. The fast acting, of a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) which is capable of improving both steady state and dynamic performance permits newer approaches to system stabilization. This paper presents a novel methodology for tuning STATCOM based damping controller in order to enhance the d...

In this paper, optimal tuning of the PID controller for solution of the Load frequency Control (LFC) problem in the restructured power system is proposed using Honey Bee Mating Optimization (HBMO) technique. The problem of robustly tuning of PID based LFC design is formulated as an optimization problem according to the time domain-based objective function which is solved by the HBMO technique t...

Female mating frequency is one of the key parameters of social insect evolution. Several hypotheses have been suggested to explain multiple mating and considerable empirical research has led to conflicting results. Building on several earlier analyses, we present a simple general model that links the number of queen matings to variance in colony performance and this variance to average colony f...

Africanized drone honey bees (Apis mellifera) migrate into European honey-bee colonies in large numbers, but Africanized colonies only rarely host drones from other colonies. This migration leads to a strong mating advantage for Africanized bees since it both inhibits European drone production and enhances Africanized drone production.

Article history: Received 3 November 2010 Received in revised form 19 May 2011 Accepted 15 June 2011 Available online 13 July 2011

Bee breed is an important factor in determining bee family development and productivity, as it affects honey production, disease resistance, climate adaptation, behaviour characteristics. The purpose of the study was to establish relationship between methods mating queens morphological characteristics bees Ukrainian steppe productive indicators colonies. To conduct research, 43 colonies with qu...

In this paper, a novel hybrid optimization algorithm, which combines a firefly algorithms and Artificial Bee Colony algorithm (FFAABC), is proposed for solving the economic power dispatch (EPD) problem. The hybrid algorithm is structured with two stages. The first stage uses the search by firefly algorithm (FFA) and second stage is a search with Artificial Bee Colony algorithm (ABC). The hybrid...

A honey bee queen mates on wing with an average of 12 males and stores their sperm to produce progeny of mixed paternity. The degree of a queen's polyandry is positively associated with measures of her colony's fitness, and observed distributions of mating number are evolutionary optima balancing risks of mating flights against benefits to the colony. Effective mating numbers as high as 40 have...