GECCO
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2003
Springer
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) has been applied successfully in solving the Traveling Salesman Problem. Marco Dorigo et al. used Ant System (AS) to explore the Symmetric Traveling S...
GECCO
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. Given an evolutionary algorithm for a problem and an instance of the problem, the results of several trials of the EA on the instance constitute a sample from the distrib...
CPAIOR
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. We propose a new solution approach for the Job Shop Problem with Sequence Dependent Setup Times (SDST-JSP). The problem consists in scheduling jobs, each job being a set ...
ANTSW
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
A general-purpose, simulation-based algorithm S-ACO for solving stochastic combinatorial optimization problems by means of the ant colony optimization (ACO) paradigm is investigate...
WADS
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
We consider an APX-hard variant (∆-Max-ATSP) and an APX-hard relaxation (Max-3-DCC) of the classical traveling salesman problem. We present a 31 40-approximation algorithm for â...
ICALP
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
In the Euclidean group Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), we are given a set of points P in the plane and a set of m connected regions, each containing at least one point of P. We w...
HPCC
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
By the use of the GRIBB software for distributed computing across the Internet, we are investigating the obstacles and the potential for efficient parallelization of Branch and Bou...
GECCO
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
The interaction among variables of an optimization problem is known as epistasis, and its degree is an important measure for the nonlinearity of the problem. We address the proble...
GECCO
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Edge Assembly Crossover (EAX) is by far the most successful crossover operator in solving the traveling salesman problem (TSP) with Genetic Algorithms (GAs). Various improvements ...
GECCO
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
This paper presents an ant-based approach for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). Novel concepts of this algorithm that distinguish it from the other heuristics are the ...