Ant colony optimization

V Maniezzo, LM Gambardella, F De Luigi - New optimization techniques …, 2004‏ - Springer
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a paradigm for designing metaheuristic algorithms for
combinatorial optimization problems. The first algorithm which can be classified within this …

An improved genetic algorithm with a new initialization mechanism based on regression techniques

AB Hassanat, VBS Prasath, MA Abbadi, SA Abu-Qdari… - Information, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Genetic algorithm (GA) is one of the well-known techniques from the area of evolutionary
computation that plays a significant role in obtaining meaningful solutions to complex …

Performance analyses over population seeding techniques of the permutation-coded genetic algorithm: An empirical study based on traveling salesman problems

PV Paul, N Moganarangan, SS Kumar, R Raju… - Applied soft …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The genetic algorithm (GA) is a population based meta-heuristic global optimization
technique for dealing with complex problems with very large search space. The population …

[PDF][PDF] Solving traveling salesman problem by using improved ant colony optimization algorithm

Z Hlaing, MA Khine - International Journal of Information and …, 2011‏ - academia.edu
Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a heuristic algorithm which has been proven a successful
technique and applied to a number of combinatorial optimization problems and is taken as …

Combining new fast opposite gradient search with ant colony optimization for solving travelling salesman problem

T Saenphon, S Phimoltares, C Lursinsap - Engineering Applications of …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Most of the discrete optimization techniques based on evolutionary computing did not
deploy and involve the actual geometrical structure of objective function in the process of …

[PDF][PDF] An ant colony optimization algorithm for solving traveling salesman problem

ZCSS Hlaing, MA Khine - 2011‏ - meral.edu.mm
Abstract Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a class of heuristic search algorithms that have
been successfully applied to solving combinational optimization (CO) problems. The …

[PDF][PDF] 基于变异和动态信息素更新的蚁群优化算法

朱庆保, 杨志军 - 软件学报, 2004‏ - Citeseer
尽管蚁群优化算法在优化计算中已得到了很多应用, 但在进行大规模优化时,
其收敛时间过长仍是应用该算法的一个瓶颈. 为此, 提出了一种高速收敛算法 …

[كتاب][B] Intelligent control systems with an introduction to system of systems engineering

T Nanayakkara, F Sahin, M Jamshidi - 2018‏ - taylorfrancis.com
From aeronautics and manufacturing to healthcare and disaster management, systems
engineering (SE) now focuses on designing applications that ensure performance …

An improved ant colony optimization algorithm: Minion Ant (MAnt) and its application on TSP

A Shetty, A Shetty, KS Puthusseri… - … Symposium Series on …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ant colony optimization is a simulated evolutionary algorithm which imitates the ants
foraging to determine the shortest path between the anthill and a food source. This is a …

Improved ant colony algorithm and its applications in TSP

X Song, B Li, H Yang - Sixth International Conference on …, 2006‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the fields of ant colony optimization (ACO), models of collective intelligence of ants are
transformed into useful optimization techniques. A kind of improved ACO (named PMACO) …