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Experiments with variants of ant algorithms.

Thomas Stützle, Sebastian Linke (2002)

Mathware and Soft Computing

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A number of extensions of Ant System, the first ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm, were proposed in the literature. These extensions typically achieve much improved computational results when compared to the original Ant System. However, many design choices of Ant System are left untouched including the fact that solutions are constructed, that real-numbers are used to simulate pheromone trails, and that explicit pheromone evaporation is used. In this article we experimentally...

A review on the ant colony optimization metaheuristic: basis, models and new trends.

Oscar Cordón, Francisco Herrera, Thomas Stützle (2002)

Mathware and Soft Computing

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Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a recent metaheuristic method that is inspired by the behavior of real ant colonies. In this paper, we review the underlying ideas of this approach that lead from the biological inspiration to the ACO metaheuristic, which gives a set of rules of how to apply ACO algorithms to challenging combinatorial problems. We present some of the algorithms that were developed under this framework, give an overview of current applications, and analyze the relationship...

MEMOTS: a memetic algorithm integrating tabu search for combinatorial multiobjective optimization

Thibaut Lust, Jacques Teghem (2008)

RAIRO - Operations Research

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We present in this paper a new multiobjective memetic algorithm scheme called MEMOX. In current multiobjective memetic algorithms, the parents used for recombination are randomly selected. We improve this approach by using a dynamic hypergrid which allows to select a parent located in a region of minimal density. The second parent selected is a solution close, in the objective space, to the first parent. A local search is then applied to the offspring. We experiment this scheme with...

Towards a theory of practice in metaheuristics design: A machine learning perspective

Mauro Birattari, Mark Zlochin, Marco Dorigo (2006)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

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A number of methodological papers published during the last years testify that a need for a thorough revision of the research methodology is felt by the operations research community – see, for example, [Barr (1995) 9–32; Eiben and Jelasity, 582–587; Hooker, (1995) 33–42; Rardin and Uzsoy, (2001) 261–304]. In particular, the performance evaluation of nondeterministic methods, including widely studied metaheuristics such as evolutionary...

Adaptive search heuristics for the generalized assignment problem.

Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço, Daniel Serra (2002)

Mathware and Soft Computing

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The Generalized Assignment Problem consists of assigning a set of tasks to a set of agents at minimum cost. Each agent has a limited amount of a single resource and each task must be assigned to one and only one agent, requiring a certain amount of the agent's resource. We present the application of a MAX-MIN Ant System (MMAS) and a greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP) to the generalized assignment problem based on hybrid approaches. The MMAS heuristic can be seen as an...