• DocumentCode
    2952391
  • Title

    An Exploration Technique for the Ant Colony System Optimization Framework

  • Author

    Lv, Zhimeng ; Chen, Yong

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Sci. & Software Instn., Tianjin Polytech. Univ., Tianjin, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    30-31 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Traveling salesman problem (TSP) is a well known combinatorial optimization problems. Ant Colony Algorithm (AC) is new Heuristic Optimization Algorithm. It is widely used in TSP. Ant Colony System (ACS) is the improvement of AC, but it is still not enough being perfect, WMASC follows this approach and tries to improve the performance of ACS algorithm by improving multiple ants and the worst ant which are allowed to updated global pheromone, adjusting the value of the parameter. The tests show that WMACS is better than ACS.
  • Keywords
    minimax techniques; travelling salesman problems; ACS; TSP; WMASC; ant colony system optimization; combinatorial optimization problem; exploration technique; global pheromone; heuristic optimization algorithm; max-min ant system; traveling salesman problem; Cities and towns; Convergence; Evolutionary computation; Heuristic algorithms; Optimization; Partitioning algorithms; Software algorithms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Control, Automation and Systems Engineering (CASE), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Singapore
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0859-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCASE.2011.5997576
  • Filename
    5997576