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Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) is a well known metaheuristic that has proven successful at solving Travelling Salesman Problems (TSP). However, ACO suffers from two issues; the first is that the technique has significant memory requirements…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Darren M. Chitty

Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a commonly used meta-heuristic to solve complex combinatorial optimization problems like traveling salesman problem (TSP), vehicle routing problem (VRP), etc. However, classical ACO algorithms provide better…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Mrityunjay Ghosh , Nivedita Dey , Debdeep Mitra , Amlan Chakrabarti

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a meta-heuristic algorithm that has been successfully applied to various Combinatorial Optimization Problems (COPs). Traditionally, customizing ACO for a specific problem requires the expert design of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Haoran Ye , Jiarui Wang , Zhiguang Cao , Helan Liang , Yong Li

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a prominent swarm intelligence algorithm extensively applied to path planning. However, traditional ACO methods often exhibit shortcomings, such as blind search behavior and slow convergence within complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yi Liu , Hongda Zhang , Zhongxue Gan , Yuning Chen , Ziqing Zhou , Chunlei Meng , Chun Ouyang

The performance of the meta-heuristic algorithms often depends on their parameter settings. Appropriate tuning of the underlying parameters can drastically improve the performance of a meta-heuristic. The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Varun Kumar Ojha , Ajith Abraham , Vaclav Snasel

The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is a nature-inspired metaheuristic method used for optimization problems. Although not a machine learning method per se, ACO is often employed alongside machine learning models to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-14 G. M. Tonin , T. Pauletti , R. M. Dos Santos , V. V. França

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is renowned for its effectiveness in solving Traveling Salesman Problems, yet it faces computational challenges in CPU-based environments, particularly with large-scale instances. In response, we introduce a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Luming Yang , Tao Jiang , Ran Cheng

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) has time complexity O(t*m*N*N), and its typical application is to solve Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), where t, m, and N denotes the iteration number, number of ants, number of cities respectively. Cutting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Chao-Yang Pang , Wei Hu , Xia Li , Be-Qiong Hu

Ant Colony algorithm has been applied to various optimization problems, however most of the previous work on scaling and parallelism focuses on Travelling Salesman Problems (TSPs). Although, useful for benchmarks and new idea comparison,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ivars Dzalbs , Tatiana Kalganova

This study presents Neural Focused Ant Colony Optimization (NeuFACO), a non-autoregressive framework for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) that combines advanced reinforcement learning with enhanced Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). NeuFACO…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dat Thanh Tran , Khai Quang Tran , Khoi Anh Pham , Van Khu Vu , Dong Duc Do

This paper research review Ant colony optimization (ACO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA), both are two powerful meta-heuristics. This paper explains some major defects of these two algorithm at first then proposes a new model for ACO in which,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Hassan Ismkhan

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a very popular metaheuristic for solving computationally hard combinatorial optimization problems. Runtime analysis of ACO with respect to various pseudo-boolean functions and different graph based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Ankit Pat , Ashish Ranjan Hota

This paper introduces an enhanced meta-heuristic (ML-ACO) that combines machine learning (ML) and ant colony optimization (ACO) to solve combinatorial optimization problems. To illustrate the underlying mechanism of our ML-ACO algorithm, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yuan Sun , Sheng Wang , Yunzhuang Shen , Xiaodong Li , Andreas T. Ernst , Michael Kirley

Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) is an effective population-based meta-heuristic for the solution of a wide variety of problems. As a population-based algorithm, its computation is intrinsically massively parallel, and it is there- fore…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jose M. Cecilia , Jose M. Garcia , Manuel Ujaldon , Andy Nisbet , Martyn Amos

Currently available dynamic optimization strategies for Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm offer a trade-off of slower algorithm convergence or significant penalty to solution quality after each dynamic change occurs. This paper…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jonas Skackauskas , Tatiana Kalganova

Optimisation of fleets of commercial vehicles with regards scheduling tasks from various locations to vehicles can result in considerably lower fleet traversal times. This has significant benefits including reduced expenses for the company…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Darren M. Chitty , Elizabeth Wanner , Rakhi Parmar , Peter R. Lewis

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a well-known method inspired by the foraging behavior of ants and is extensively used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we first consider a general framework based on the concept…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Bodo Manthey , Jesse van Rhijn , Ashkan Safari , Tjark Vredeveld

Quantum ant colony optimization (QACO) has drew much attention since it combines the advantages of quantum computing and ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms and overcomes some limitations of the traditional ACO algorithm. However, due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Qian Qiu , Mohan Wu , Qichun Sun , Xiaogang Li , Hua Xu

With the rapid development of the logistics industry, the path planning of logistics vehicles has become increasingly complex, requiring consideration of multiple constraints such as time windows, task sequencing, and motion smoothness.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Haopeng Zhao , Zhichao Ma , Lipeng Liu , Yang Wang , Zheyu Zhang , Hao Liu

This research conducts a comparative analysis of four Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) variants -- Ant System (AS), Rank-Based Ant System (ASRank), Max-Min Ant System (MMAS), and Ant Colony System (ACS) -- for solving the Traveling Salesman…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ahmed Mohamed Abdelmoaty , Ibrahim Ihab Ibrahim
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