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

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Qian Qiu , Liang Zhang , Mohan Wu , Qichun Sun , Xiaogang Li , Da-Chuang Li , Hua Xu

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

We propose a new hybrid quantum algorithm based on the classical Ant Colony Optimization algorithm to produce approximate solutions for NP-hard problems, in particular optimization problems. First, we discuss some previously proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Mikel Garcia de Andoin , Javier Echanobe

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a family of nature-inspired metaheuristics often applied to finding approximate solutions to difficult optimization problems. Despite being significantly faster than exact methods, the ACOs can still be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Rafał Skinderowicz

Quantum computing promises to solve difficult optimization problems in chemistry, physics and mathematics more efficiently than classical computers, but requires fault-tolerant quantum computers with millions of qubits. To overcome errors…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Tobias Fankhauser , Marc E. Solèr , Rudolf M. Füchslin , Kurt Stockinger

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a fundamental challenge in combinatorial optimization, widely applied in logistics and transportation. As the size of TSP instances grows, traditional algorithms often struggle to produce high-quality…

This paper studies quantum optimization baselines for the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem (GTSP), a clustered routing problem that naturally models variant selection and sequencing problems under discrete alternatives. We propose a…

With IoT systems' increasing scale and complexity, maintenance of a large number of nodes using stationary devices is becoming increasingly difficult. Hence, mobile devices are being employed that can traverse through a set of target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Mayukh Sarkar , Jitesh Pradhan , Anil Kumar Singh , Hathiram Nenavath

Nowadays swarm intelligence-based algorithms are being used widely to optimize the dynamic traveling salesman problem (DTSP). In this paper, we have used mixed method of Ant Colony Optimization (AOC)and gradient descent to optimize DTSP…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Farhad Soleimanian Gharehchopogh , Isa Maleki , Seyyed Reza Khaze

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) 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 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

This paper explores the applications of quantum annealing (QA) and classical simulated annealing (SA) to a suite of combinatorial optimization problems in machine learning, namely feature selection, instance selection, and clustering. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Chloe Pomeroy , Aleksandar Pramov , Karishma Thakrar , Lakshmi Yendapalli

The nature has inspired several metaheuristics, outstanding among these is Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), which have proved to be very effective and efficient in problems of high complexity (NP-hard) in combinatorial optimization. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Edson Flórez , Wilfredo Gómez , Lola Bautista

Test case optimization (TCO) reduces software testing cost while preserving its effectiveness, but solving TCO problems for large-scale and complex systems requires substantial computational resources. Quantum approximate optimization…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xinyi Wang , Shaukat Ali , Tao Yue , Paolo Arcaini

In this paper Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization (HAntCO) approach in solving Multi--Skill Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (MS--RCPSP) has been presented. We have proposed hybrid approach that links classical heuristic priority…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Paweł B. Myszkowski , Marek E. Skowroński , Łukasz P. Olech , Krzysztof Oślizło

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

In this paper, we propose a Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization algorithm (HACO) for Next Release Problem (NRP). NRP, a NP-hard problem in requirement engineering, is to balance customer requests, resource constraints, and requirement…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-18 He Jiang , Jingyuan Zhang , Jifeng Xuan , Zhilei Ren , Yan Hu

The intractability of deterministic solutions in solving $\mathcal{NP}$-Hard Combinatorial Optimisation Problems (COP) is well reported in the literature. One mechanism for overcoming this difficulty has been the use of efficient COP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Maxine T. Khumalo , Hazel A. Chieza , Krupa Prag , Matthew Woolway

In this paper, thinking over characteristics of ant colony optimization Algorithm, taking into account the characteristics of cloud computing, combined with clonal selection algorithm (CSA) global optimum advantage of the convergence of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Jianbiao Lin , Yukun Zhong , Xiaowei Lin , Hui Lin , Qiang Zeng
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