Camel Herds Algorithm: a New Swarm Intelligent Algorithm to Solve Optimization Problems

Abstract

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a discipline that deals with artificial and naturalsystems which study the collective behaviors of social insects or animals. Camel HerdsAlgorithm (CHA) have been proposed as a new swarm intelligent algorithm in this work.The proposed algorithm depends on the behavior of the camel in the natural wild, takinginto consideration that there is a leader for each herd, food and water searchingdepending on humidity value with neighboring strategy. The Flexible Job Shop SchedulingProblem (FJSP) have been addressed as a case study to confirm the proposed algorithm.The trial result showed that the CHA is a good strategy to find the optimal solution inproblem space.