• DocumentCode
    3583013
  • Title

    Solving a shortest path problem by ant algorithm

  • Author

    Fan, Hui ; Hua, Zhen ; Li, Jin-Jiang ; Yuan, Da

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Shandong Inst. of Bus. & Technol., Yantai, China
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    3174
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we present a method of solving a shortest path problem by ant algorithm. Taking coal concentrated-station as example, where should we found the station, in a certain range, to minimize the total transporting cost. The corresponding mathematical model is founded. Ant algorithm is a newly emerged stochastic searching optimization algorithm in recent years, and it effectively resolves the shortest path problem in the paper.
  • Keywords
    cost reduction; graph theory; search problems; stochastic programming; transportation; ant algorithm; coal concentrated station; mathematical model; shortest path problem; stochastic searching optimization algorithm; transporting cost minimization; Computer science; Costs; Machine learning; Mathematical model; Production; Rail transportation; Road transportation; Shortest path problem; Stochastic processes; Tree graphs;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2004. Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8403-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMLC.2004.1378581
  • Filename
    1378581