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A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm using MapReduce for Arc Routing Problem

by Gajanan Aochar, Roshni Ade
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 112 - Number 11
Year of Publication: 2015
Authors: Gajanan Aochar, Roshni Ade
10.5120/19709-1467

Gajanan Aochar, Roshni Ade . A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm using MapReduce for Arc Routing Problem. International Journal of Computer Applications. 112, 11 ( February 2015), 8-12. DOI=10.5120/19709-1467

@article{ 10.5120/19709-1467,
author = { Gajanan Aochar, Roshni Ade },
title = { A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm using MapReduce for Arc Routing Problem },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { February 2015 },
volume = { 112 },
number = { 11 },
month = { February },
year = { 2015 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 8-12 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume112/number11/19709-1467/ },
doi = { 10.5120/19709-1467 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Roshni Ade
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%J International Journal of Computer Applications
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%P 8-12
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Ant colony optimisation (ACO) could be a comparatively new random heuristic approach for determination optimisation issues. Furthermore, This paper extend these implementations with two local search methods and we compare two heuristics that guide the HACO algorithms. However, relatively few results on the runtime analysis of the ACO on the TSP are available. Moreover, we experiment with two different pheromone update strategies. In order to demonstrate this we present an ACO implementation for the travelling salesman problem it requires a larger number of ants and iterations which consume more time. The influence of the parameters controlling the relative importance of pheromone trail versus visibility is also analyzed, and their choice is shown to have an impact on the expected runtime. The main application of the ACO algorithm lies in the field of combinatorial optimization, and the traveling salesman problem (TSP) is the first benchmark problem to which the HACO algorithm has been applied.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Hybrid Ant colony optimization (HACO) Ant colony optimization(ACO) Capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) Multi-depot vehicle routing problem (MDVRP) combinatorial optimization mimetic algorithms