Generic cabling is a key component for multiplex cable wiring. It is one of the basic foundations of intelligent buildings. Using operation flow in generic cabling, the index constraints affecting generic cabling have been evolved in this paper. A mathematical model is built based on the ant colony algorithm with multiple constraints, and improvements were made on the original basis to extend t...

-The social insect allegory for working out problems has become a promising area in the recent years emphasizing on stochastic construction practice building the key probabilistically. The approach focuses on direct or indirect communications among uncomplicated agents. Swarm Intelligence is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized system whereby the joint behavior of agent inte...

(2008) Flexible protein folding by ant colony optimization.

Article history: Received 2 March 2014 Received in revised form 13 May 2014 Accepted 28 May 2014 Available online 23 June 2014

In this paper, an algorithm based on ant colony optimization for community detection from bipartite networks is presented. The algorithm establishes a model graph for the ants’ searching. Each ant chooses its path according to the pheromone and heuristic information on each edge to construct a solution. Experimental results show that our algorithm can not only accurately identify the number of ...

Constructive metaheuristics explore a tree of constructive decisions, the topology of which is determined by the way solutions are represented and constructed. Some solution representations allow particular solutions to be reached on a greater number of paths in this construction tree than other solutions, which can introduce a bias to the search. A bias can also be introduced by the topology o...

This study proposes an Ant Colony Optimization using Genetic Information (GIACO). The GIACO algorithm combines Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) with Genetic Algorithm (GA). GIACO searches solutions by using the pheromone of ACO and the genetic information of GA. In addition, two kinds of ants coexist: intelligent ant and dull ant. The dull ant is caused by the mutation and cannot trail the pheromo...

As the ant colony algorithm has the defects in robot optimization path planning such as that low convergence cause local optimum, an improved ant colony algorithm is proposed to apply to the planning of path finding for robot. This algorithm uses the search way of exhumation ant to realize the complementation of advantages and accelerate the convergence of algorithm. The experimental result sho...