Performance Analysis of Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for High Dimensional Problems on ARM Based Mobile Platform

The mobile processors with the increasing computational capabilities and software supports for the devices equipped by them have attracted the researchers’ attention to check whether they can be used for solving complex problems or not. In this study, a mobile device powered by an ARM® based processor is used as a test environment for Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm that is modeling intelligent foraging behaviors of real honey bees. Experimental studies for solving a set of high dimensional numerical problems with the ABC algorithm showed that serial and parallel implementations ıf the ABC algorithm can be successfully operated on the mobile device by producing similar results when compared to the serial and parallel counterparts run on a cluster containing conventional processors.