Abstract
Early applications of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) have been mainly concerned with solving ordering problems (e.g., traveling salesman problem). We introduce a new version of Ant System-an ACO algorithm for solving subset problems. The computational study involves the Multiple Knapsack Problem (MKP); the reported results show the potential power of the ACO approach for solving this type of subset problem.
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Knapsack problemTravelling salesman problemAnt colony optimization algorithmsComputer scienceMathematical optimizationAnt colonyOptimization problemExtremal optimizationMetaheuristicANTMathematicsMeta-optimization
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- 2003
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- 1459-1464
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- 214
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Guillermo Leguizamón,
Zbigniew Michalewicz
(2003).
A new version of ant system for subset problems.
, 1459-1464.
https://doi.org/10.1109/cec.1999.782655
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- 10.1109/cec.1999.782655