Interactive and non-interactive hybrid immigrants schemes for ant algorithms in dynamic environments

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2014-09-22

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IEEE Press

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Abstract

Dynamic optimization problems (DOPs) have been a major challenge for ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms. The integration of ACO algorithms with immigrants schemes showed promising results on different DOPs. Each type of immigrants scheme aims to address a DOP with specific characteristics. For example, random and elitism-based immigrants perform well on severely and slightly changing environments, respectively. In this paper, two hybrid immigrants, i.e., non-interactive and interactive, schemes are proposed to combine the merits of the aforementioned immigrants schemes. The experiments on a series of dynamic travelling salesman problems showed that the hybridization of immigrants further improves the performance of ACO algorithms.

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Dynamic optimization problems, ant colony optimization, hybrid immigrants

Citation

Mavrovouniotis, M. and Yang, S. (2014) Interactive and non-interactive hybrid immigrants schemes for ant algorithms in dynamic environments. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Beijing, China, July 2014. pp. 1542-1549.

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