scholarly journals A New Local Search Based Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems

2010 ◽  
Vol E93-D (5) ◽  
pp. 1127-1136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Rakib HASSAN ◽  
Md. Monirul ISLAM ◽  
Kazuyuki MURASE
2013 ◽  
Vol 443 ◽  
pp. 541-545
Author(s):  
Qian Zou ◽  
Hua Jun Wang ◽  
Wei Huang ◽  
Jin Pan

Ant colony algorithm is an effective algorithm to solve combinatorial optimization problems, it has many good features, and there are also some disadvantages. In this paper, through research on ant colony optimization algorithm, apply it in intrusion detection. Then it gives an improved ant colony optimization algorithm. Tests show that the algorithm improves the efficiency of intrusion detection, reduces false positives of intrusion detection.


Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
Ali Ahmid ◽  
Thien-My Dao ◽  
Ngan Van Le

Solving of combinatorial optimization problems is a common practice in real-life engineering applications. Trusses, cranes, and composite laminated structures are some good examples that fall under this category of optimization problems. Those examples have a common feature of discrete design domain that turn them into a set of NP-hard optimization problems. Determining the right optimization algorithm for such problems is a precious point that tends to impact the overall cost of the design process. Furthermore, reinforcing the performance of a prospective optimization algorithm reduces the design cost. In the current study, a comprehensive assessment criterion has been developed to assess the performance of meta-heuristic (MH) solutions in the domain of structural design. Thereafter, the proposed criterion was employed to compare five different variants of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). It was done by using a well-known structural optimization problem of laminate Stacking Sequence Design (SSD). The initial results of the comparison study reveal that the Hyper-Cube Framework (HCF) ACO variant outperforms the others. Consequently, an investigation of further improvement led to introducing an enhanced version of HCFACO (or EHCFACO). Eventually, the performance assessment of the EHCFACO variant showed that the average practical reliability became more than twice that of the standard ACO, and the normalized price decreased more to hold at 28.92 instead of 51.17.


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1650
Author(s):  
Zhaojun Zhang ◽  
Zhaoxiong Xu ◽  
Shengyang Luan ◽  
Xuanyu Li ◽  
Yifei Sun

Opposition-based learning (OBL) has been widely used to improve many swarm intelligent optimization (SI) algorithms for continuous problems during the past few decades. When the SI optimization algorithms apply OBL to solve discrete problems, the construction and utilization of the opposite solution is the key issue. Ant colony optimization (ACO) generally used to solve combinatorial optimization problems is a kind of classical SI optimization algorithm. Opposition-based ACO which is combined in OBL is proposed to solve the symmetric traveling salesman problem (TSP) in this paper. Two strategies for constructing opposite path by OBL based on solution characteristics of TSP are also proposed. Then, in order to use information of opposite path to improve the performance of ACO, three different strategies, direction, indirection, and random methods, mentioned for pheromone update rules are discussed individually. According to the construction of the inverse solution and the way of using it in pheromone updating, three kinds of improved ant colony algorithms are proposed. To verify the feasibility and effectiveness of strategies, two kinds of ACO algorithms are employed to solve TSP instances. The results demonstrate that the performance of opposition-based ACO is better than that of ACO without OBL.


Author(s):  
MANJU AGARWAL ◽  
VIKAS K. SHARMA

This paper addresses the redundancy allocation problem of multi-state series-parallel reliability structures where each subsystem can consist of maximum two types of redundant components. The objective is to minimize the total investment cost of system design satisfying system reliability constraint and the consumer load demand. The demand distribution is presented as a piecewise cumulative load curve. The configuration uses the binary components from a list of available products to provide redundancy so as to increase system reliability. The components are characterized by their feeding capacity, reliability and cost. A system that consists of elements with different reliability and productivity parameters has the capacity strongly dependent upon the selection of components constituting its structure. An ant colony optimization algorithm has been presented to analyze the problem and suggest an optimal system structure. The solution approach consists of a series of simple steps as used in early ant colony optimization algorithms dealing with other optimization problems and still proves efficient over the prevalent methods with regard to solutions obtained/computation time. Three multi-state system design problems have been solved for illustration.


2012 ◽  
Vol 490-495 ◽  
pp. 66-70
Author(s):  
Yang Nan

Ant colony optimization has been become a very useful method for combination optimization problems. Based on close connections between combination optimization and continuous optimization, nowadays some scholars have studied to apply ant colony optimization to continuous optimization problems, and proposed some continuous ant colony optimizations. To improve the performance of those continuous ant colony optimizations, here the principles of evolutionary algorithm and artificial immune algorithm have been combined with the typical continuous Ant Colony Optimization, and the adaptive Cauchi mutation and thickness selection are used to operate the ant individual, so a new Immunized Ant Colony Optimization is proposed.


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