Interacted multiple ant colonies optimization approach to enhance the performance of ant colony optimization algorithms

• Main Authors: Aljanaby, Alaa, Ku-Mahamud, Ku Ruhana, Md. Norwawi, Norita
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2010
• Subjects: QA Mathematics
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/1811/1/Alaa_Aljanaby_.....pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/1811/; http://journal.ccsenet.org/index.php/cis/article/viewFile/4288/4281
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

One direction of ant colony optimization researches is dividing the ants’ population into several colonies. These colonies work together to collectively solve an optimization problem. This approach offers good opportunity to explore a large area of the search space. This paper proposes a new generi...