Clustering using artificial bee colony on CUDA

Artificial bee colony is a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm based on the behavior of honey bee swarm. These bees work largely independently of other bees, making the algorithm suitable for parallel implementation. Within this paper, we introduce the algorithm itself and its subsequent parallelization utilizing the CUDA platform. The runtime speedup is demonstrated on several commonly used test functions for optimization. The algorithm is subsequently applied to the problem of clustering real data.