A hybrid firefly algorithm

Firefly Algorithm (FA) is a bio-inspired algorithm simulating the flashing behavior of fireflies. In original algorithm, all the fireflies are unisex and only the flashing behavior is simulated. This paper presents a novel hybrid firefly algorithm (HFA) adding mating behavior in original firefly algorithm. The new algorithm is compared with FA and other three well-known bio-inspired algorithms on fifteen benchmark functions. The experimental results show HFA has a good optimizing ability on most benchmark functions and is proved to have significant improvement over canonical FA and several other comparison algorithms.