ECabc documentation

ECabc is an open-source Python package that tunes parameters of user-supplied objective (fitness) functions using the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm. The runtime install is stdlib-only. The primary public entry point is ecabc.ABC.

Background

• Karaboğa D. Artificial bee colony algorithm. Scholarpedia, 5(3):6915, 2010. https://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Artificial_bee_colony_algorithm

• Sharma, S., Gelaf-Romer, H., Kessler, T., & Mack, J. H. (2019). ECabc (JOSS). DOI 10.21105/joss.01420 https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01420

The colony uses employer, onlooker, and scout roles to explore a bounded parameter space. Lower objective values are treated as better.

Contents

• Installation
  • Install from PyPI
  • Upgrade
  • Install from source
  • Development extras
  • Build the HTML docs locally
• Quickstart
  • Notes
  • Next steps
• API stability policy
  • Frozen public surface
  • Versioning
  • Runtime dependencies
• API reference
  • Primary entry point
  • Secondary exports
  • Package version
  • Utilities

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page