Abstract. This paper introduces a framework based on multi-agent system for solving problems of combinatorial optimization. The framework allows running various metaheuristic algor...
In this article, a hybrid optimization method has been proposed consisting of modified ant colony systems (ACSs) and constrained nonlinear programming (NLP) to solve the problems ...
Applying parameter adaptation means operating on parameters of an algorithm while it is tackling an instance. For ant colony optimization, several parameter adaptation methods have...
Cooperative approaches have proved to be very useful in evolutionary computation due to their ability to solve efficiently high-dimensional complex problems through the cooperatio...
Many engineering optimization tasks involve finding more than one optimum solution. The present study provides a comprehensive review of the existing work done in the field of mul...