A Glowworm Swarm Optimization Algorithm Based Tribes

This paper based on the metaphor of specialization and cooperation in steppe tribes of the human society, tribe glowworm swarm optimization (TGSO) algorithm was presented to solve the problem of low precision and easy to fall into local optimization of the glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) algorithm. In the proposed tribe glowworm swarm optimization approach, all glowworms are divided into a certain tribes. Finally, the flow shop scheduling problem is utilized to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed tribe glowworm swarm optimization approach.