A new rank based version of the Ant System. A computational study.

The ant system is a new meta-heuristic for hard combinatorial optimization problems. It is a population-based approach that uses exploitation of positive feedback as well as greedy search. It was first proposed for tackling the well known Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), but has been also successfu...

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Main Authors: Bullnheimer, Bernd, Hartl, Richard F., Strauß, Christine
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: SFB Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business 1997
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Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/616/1/document.pdf