[PDF] Top 20 Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem Using the Ant Colony Optimization

... from the classical methods in that they combined the stochastic and deterministic ...global optimization, not only for local extremes. The big advantage of met heuristics is that they are ... See full document

... databases using Ant Colony ...maped the connection between tables into a TSP model ,in which each table was considered as a city and each table link as a relation between two ...Then ... See full document

... in the literature in a more relaxed version, namely, the Pickup and Delivery Travelling Salesman Problem with LIFO Loading (PDTSPL) in which the vehicle contains just one stack ... See full document

... of problem that always can be seen in medical science is that the diagnosis of disease, based upon various tests performed upon the ...performing the several tests, the ultimate ... See full document

... new optimization techniques which can be applied to various problems of different domain including those are ...combinatorial optimization and NP-hard problem. So GA can be applied to find the ... See full document

... selecting the amalgamation of features between a larger feature vector database that defines a specific feature set is ...addressed the dimensionality reduction problem by applying various algorithms ... See full document

... solutions. The solutions with high "fitness" are "recombined" with other solutions by swapping parts of a solution with ...of the search space for which good solutions have already been ... See full document

... by the behavior of a real ant colony. The algorithm can find the optimum solution by generating artificial ...environment, the artificial ants search the solution space. ... See full document

... on the fuzzy inference rules are highlighted to extract the ...But the complexity of this approach is forming the fuzzy rules. The process of forming the fuzzy inference rules is ... See full document

... of the powerful optimization methods based on the process of natural ...evolution[1]. The survival of the fittest idea is adopted to provide a different searching technique which ... See full document

... In the implemented cases, different possible hybridizations can be thought, like the use of initial solutions via another method than the main one (used many times for instance in the Genetic ... See full document

... N the number of amino acids in the ...about the protein. For example, the secondary structure elements can be identified using this ...along the main diagonal, while - sheets ... See full document

... (2008), the authors examined multiobjective versions of several variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) in terms of their objectives, their characteristics and the types of proposed ... See full document

... an Ant Colony Algorithm to optimize the performance of the multilayer ...Indeed, the performance of the multilayer Perception depends on its parameters such as the number ... See full document

... of the MONACO – Multiple Objective Network optimization based on an ACO – ...as the name suggests, is particularly adaptable to the optimization of network problems with multiple ... See full document

... in problem solving that is comparable to that of a human expert. The knowledge base consists of information about a particular problem ...and the other is Expert Advisory system. ... See full document

... of the main concerns of any airline company, as it can influence its annual revenue by upwards of ...both the Aircraft Assignment Problem (AAP) and the Aircraft Recovering Problem ... See full document

... with the depot and ends with the last customer that either uses up the full vehicle load or satisfies the given time ...PRP optimization model. When a vehicle leaves from the ... See full document

... k-th ant may either follows the most favorable path already established or may randomly select a path to follow based on a probability distribution established by distance and pheromone ...time the ... See full document

... enhancing the searching ability of the algorithm. The modified algorithm gives better results in precision or computational ...to the generalized TSP. The discrete particle swarm ... See full document