Analysis of the best-worst ant system and its variants on the TSP

  1. Cordón García, Óscar
  2. Fernández de Viana González, Iñaki Josep
  3. Herrera Triguero, Francisco
Revista:
Mathware & soft computing: The Magazine of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology

ISSN: 1134-5632

Any de publicació: 2002

Volum: 9

Número: 3

Pàgines: 177-192

Tipus: Article

Altres publicacions en: Mathware & soft computing: The Magazine of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology

Resum

In this contribution, we will study the influence of the three main components of Best-Worst Ant System: the best-worst pheromone trail update rule, the pheromone trail mutation and the restart. Both the importance of each of them and the fact whether all of them are necessary will be analyzed. The performance of different variants of this algorithm will be tested when solving different instances of the TSP.