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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

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 System (ACS) is a distributed (agent- based) algorithm which has been widely studied on the Symmetric Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). The optimum parameters for this algorithm have to be found by trial and error. We use a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-23 D Gómez-Cabrero , D. N. Ranasinghe

In an era where sustainability is becoming increasingly crucial, we introduce a new Carbon-Aware Ant Colony System (CAACS) Algorithm that addresses the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem (GTSP) while minimizing carbon emissions. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Marina Lin , Laura P. Schaposnik

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

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic for solving difficult discrete optimization problems. This paper presents a deterministic model based on differential equation to analyze the dynamics of basic Ant System algorithm.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ayan Acharya , Deepyaman Maiti , Amit Konar , Ramadoss Janarthanan

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a swarm intelligence methodology utilized for solving optimization problems through information transmission mediated by pheromones. As ants sequentially secrete pheromones that subsequently evaporate, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Taiyo Shimizu , Shintaro Mori

We introduce a framework for applying metaheuristic algorithms, such as ant colony optimization (ACO), to combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) like the traveling salesman problem (TSP). The framework consists of three sequential…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ethan Davis

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

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

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 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

Given a set of celestial bodies, the problem of finding an optimal sequence of swing-bys, deep space manoeuvres (DSM) and transfer arcs connecting the elements of the set is combinatorial in nature. The number of possible paths grows…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2011-04-26 Matteo Ceriotti , Massimiliano Vasile

Ant colony optimization (ACO) leverages the parameter $\alpha$ to modulate the decision function's sensitivity to pheromone levels, balancing the exploration of diverse solutions with the exploitation of promising areas. Identifying the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-30 Shintaro Mori , Taiyo Shimizu , Masato Hisakado , Kazuaki Nakayama

With the increasing demand and complexity of networks, factors such as balancing the load, improving the performance, reducing delay and finding optimal path between nodes in a computer network have become crucial. The traditional routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Chandana M , Sanjeev Thakur

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

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

Congestion is a problem of paramount importance in resource constrained Wireless Sensor Networks, especially for large networks, where the traffic loads exceed the available capacity of the resources. Sensor nodes are prone to failure and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Arpita Chakraborty , Srinjoy Ganguly , Mrinal Kanti Naskar , Anupam Karmakar

Detecting communities from complex networks has recently triggered great interest. Aiming at this problem, a new ant colony optimization strategy building on the Markov random walks theory, which is named as MACO, is proposed in this paper.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Di Jin , Dayou Liu , Bo Yang , Jie Liu , Dongxiao He

This paper introduces a new optimisation algorithm, called Adaptive Bacterial Colony Optimisation (ABCO), modelled after the foraging behaviour of E. coli bacteria. The algorithm follows three stages--explore, exploit and reproduce--and is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Barisi Kogam , Yevgeniya Kovalchuk , Mohamed Medhat Gaber