Computing with Bees: Attacking Complex Transportation Engineering Problems

Abstract

The Bee System (an artificial bee swarm) is introduced in this paper. The proposed approach is applied to the Traveling Salesman Problem. The obtained results are very promising. The potential applications of the developed Bee System in the field of transportation engineering are discussed. The Bee System represents the new, successful application of emergent techniques based on natural metaphors, such as simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and neural networks, to the complex engineering and management problems.