An Improved Artificial Bee Colony-Based Approach for Zoning Protected Ecological Areas.

ABSTRACT: China is facing ecological and environmental challenges as its urban growth rate continues to rise, and zoning protected ecological areas is recognized as an effective response measure. Zoning inherently involves both site attributes and aggregation attributes, and the combination of mathematical models and heuristic algorithms have proven advantageous. In this article, an improved artificial bee colony (IABC)-based approach is proposed for zoning protected ecological areas at a regional scale. Three main improvements were made: the first is the use of multiple strategies to generate the initial bee population of a specific quality and diversity, the second is an exploitation search procedure to generate neighbor solutions combining "replace" and "alter" operations, and the third is a "swa

SUBMITTER: Shao J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4578960 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature