• DocumentCode
    2340433
  • Title

    An ACO algorithm for graph coloring problem

  • Author

    Salari, E. ; Eshghi, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Ind. Eng., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran
  • fYear
    0
  • fDate
    0-0 0
  • Abstract
    Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a well-known metaheuristic in which a colony of artificial ants cooperate in exploring good solutions to a combinatorial optimization problem. In this paper, an ACO algorithm is presented for the graph coloring problem. This ACO algorithm conforms to max-min ant system structure and exploits a local search heuristic to improve its performance. Experimental results on DIMACS test instances show improvements over existing ACO algorithms of the graph coloring problem
  • Keywords
    artificial life; combinatorial mathematics; graph colouring; minimax techniques; search problems; ant colony optimization; artificial ants; combinatorial optimization; graph coloring; local search heuristic; max-min ant system structure; metaheuristic; Ant colony optimization; Frequency; Genetic algorithms; Industrial engineering; Iterative algorithms; Partitioning algorithms; Remuneration; Scheduling; Simulated annealing; System testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications, 2005 ICSC Congress on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0020-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CIMA.2005.1662331
  • Filename
    1662331