Mean-Contribution Ant System: An Improved Version of Ant Colony Optimization for Traveling Salesman Problem.
Anzuo LiuGuishi DengShimin ShanPublished in: SEAL (2006)
Keyphrases
- ant colony optimization
- traveling salesman problem
- metaheuristic
- aco algorithm
- swarm intelligence
- ant colony optimization algorithm
- combinatorial optimization problems
- ant colony
- particle swarm optimization
- nature inspired
- ant colonies
- artificial ants
- aco algorithms
- particle swarm optimization pso
- path relinking
- traveling salesman
- genetic algorithm
- hybrid algorithm
- ant colony algorithm
- routing problem
- benchmark instances
- crossover operator
- vehicle routing problem
- variable neighborhood search
- simulated annealing
- branch and bound algorithm
- combinatorial optimization
- pheromone trails
- genetic programming
- optimization problems