In allusion to the deficiencies of the ant colony optimization algorithm for solving the complex problem, the genetic algorithm is introduced into the ant colony optimization algorithm in order to propose a novel hybrid optimization (NHGACO) algorithm in this paper. In the NHGACO algorithm, the genetic algorithm is used to update the global optimal solution and the ant colony optimization algor...

Research efforts in metaheuristics have shown that an intelligent incorporation of more classical optimization techniques in metaheuristics can be very beneficial. In this paper, we combine the metaheuristic ant colony optimization with dynamic programming for the application to the NP-hard k-cardinality tree problem. Given an undirected graph G with node and/or edge weights, the problem consis...

To solve the problem of vehicle routing problem under capacity limitation, this paper puts forward a novel method of logistics distribution route optimization based on genetic algorithm and ant colony optimization algorithm (GA-ACO). On the first stage, improved genetic algorithm with a good global optimization searching ability is used to find the feasible routes quickly. On the second stage, ...

Swarm robotic is a new research area in the domain of Artificial intelligence. Particularly, the swarm robot concept is adopted from Mother Nature that combines small robots in a group to solve a particular problem. This work presents decentralization of swarm robots along-with their methods of optimization, development, applications and implementation in real life domain. It also solves the tr...

The hydrophobic-polar model has been widely studied in the field of protein structure prediction both for theoretical purposes and as a benchmark for new optimization strategies. In this work we introduce a new heuristics based on Ant Colony Optimization and Markov Chain Monte Carlo that we called Hybrid Monte Carlo Ant Colony Optimization. We describe this method and compare results obtained o...

Ant Colony Optimization is a relatively new meta-heuristic that has proven its quality and versatility on various combinatorial optimization problems such as the traveling salesman problem, the vehicle routing problem and the job shop scheduling problem. The paper introduces an Ant Colony Optimization approach to solve the problem of determining a job-sequence that minimizes the overall tardine...

Ant colony optimization(ACO), which is one of the intelligential optimization algorithm, has been widely used to solve combinational optimization problems. Deceptive problems have been considered difficult for ant colony optimization. It was believed that ACO will fail to converge to global optima of deceptive problems. This paper proves that the first order deceptive problem of ant colony algo...

The ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is a new heuristic algorithm that offers good robustness and searching ability. With in-depth exploration, the ACO algorithm exhibits slow convergence speed, and yields local optimization solutions. Based on analysis of the ACO algorithm and the genetic algorithm, we propose a novel hybrid genetic ant colony optimization (NHGAO) algorithm that integra...

This paper is based on an ant colony optimization algorithm (ASDR) for solving FPGA routing for a route based routing constraint model in FPGA design architecture. I n this approach FPGA routing task is transformed into a Boolean Satisfiabilty (SAT) equation with the property that any assignment of input variables that satisfies the equation specifies a v alid route. The Satisfiability equation...

The aim of this paper is compare the effect of using different topologies or connections between separate colonies in island based parallel implementations of the Ant Colony Optimization applied to the Minimum Weight Vertex Cover Problem. We investigated the sequential Ant Colony Optimization algorithms applied to the Minimum Weight Vertex Cover Problem before. Parallelization of population bas...