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A
D
E
A
E
C
C
B
B
D
Order 1
A
Order 2
Order 3
One wasp is assigned
to each order
Bidding
decision
Bidding
wasps
Each wasp has a strength that
defines its place in a hierarchy
Tournament
Orders
to deliver
Available stock
Hierarchy
of wasps
Figure 3.3 Hierarchial wasps.
Both
i
and α can be adjusted to diminish or increase the number of actually
competing wasps, with effects in the general speed of the optimization. Notice that
all wasps use the same value of α. The wasps that choose to bid will compete for the
available resources, in order to satisfy their correspondent order (see Figure 3.3).
The competing algorithm is based on a formation ...