Particle swarm optimization (PSO) was originally designed and introduced by Eberhart and Kennedy (Ebarhart, Kennedy, 1995 Kennedy, Eberhart, 1995 Ebarhart, Kennedy, 2001). The PSO is a population based search algorithm based on the simulation of

The artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is a metaheuristic algorithm for numerical optimization. It is based on the intelligent foraging behavior of honey bees. This paper presents a parallel version of the algorithm for shared memory archi