Bacterial Foraging Optimization Based on Self-Adaptive Chemotaxis Strategy

Table 3

Essential parameter settings.

Parameters	Description
D	Dimension of the optimization space
S	Total number of the bacteria
C	Initial step size of bacterial swimming
P ed	Probability of bacteria elimination and dispersal
N c	Maximum number of chemotaxis
N S	Maximum number of bacterial swimming
N re	Maximum number of reproduction
N ed	Maximum number of elimination and dispersal
P i (j,k,l)	The bacterial initial position
ω	Inertia factor
C 1 and C2	Acceleration constants
R 1 and R2	Random values between 0 and 1