Ant colony algorithm for building energy optimisation problems and comparison with benchmark algorithms

Ant Colony Optimisation: Algorithms and Applications

Niching for Ant Colony Optimisation

Evolutionary Computation niching methods, such as Fitness Sharing and Crowding, are aimed at simultaneously locating and maintaining multiple optima to increase search robustness, typically in multi-modal function optimization. Such methods have been shown to be useful for both single and multiple objective optimisation problems. Niching methods have been adapted in recent years for other optim...

Solving Problems with Hidden Dynamics - Comparison of Extremal Optimisation and Ant Colony System

dynamic combinatorial problems poses a particular challenge to optimisation algorithms. Optimising a dynamic problem that does not notify the solver when a change has been made is very difficult for most well-known algorithms. Extremal Optimisation is a recent addition to the group of biologically inspired optimisation algorithms, while Ant Colony System has been used to solve a large variety o...

A hybrid ant colony optimisation algorithm for job shop problems and its convergence analysis

This paper presents a hybrid ant colony optimisation (HACO) algorithm for solving job shop problems. The criterion considered is the maximum completion time, the so-called makespan. The HACO algorithm improves the performance of intelligence optimisation algorithm, which adopts ant colony optimisation (ACO) algorithm to search in the global solution space, and tabu search (TS) algorithm is util...

Comparison of Ant Colony, Elite Ant system and Maximum – Minimum Ant system Algorithms for Optimizing Coefficients of Sediment Rating Curve (Case Study: Sistan River)

By far, different models for determining the relationship between the flow rate  and amount of precipitation have been developed. many models are based on regression models with limited assumptions. one of the most common methods for estimating  sediment of rivers is sediment rating curve. for better estimation of the amount of sediment based of sediment curve  rating equation, it is possible t...