Firefly Algorithm for Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem and Number of Fireflies (Developments of Language, Logic, Algebraic system and Computer Science)

Abstract

We apply the firefly algorithm to the uncapacitatcd facility location problem which is one of optimization problems and investigate the optimum number of the fireflies. The light absorption coefficient parameter $gamma$ of the firefly algorithm is examined to obtain better performance and suitable values of $gamma$ are explored for the uncapacitated facility location problem. Effectiveness of local search in the firefly algorithm is also investigated. In addition, we investigate the optimum number of fireflies for the firefly algorithm.