Keyword: heuristics: ant systems

Found 160 papers in total
On the short period production planning in industrial plants: a real case study
On the short period production planning in industrial plants: a real case study
2013,
The present research work proposes a simulation‐based tool for short period...
Comparing Ant Colony Optimization and Genetic Algorithm Approaches for Solving Traffic Signal Coordination under Oversaturation Conditions
Comparing Ant Colony Optimization and Genetic Algorithm Approaches for Solving Traffic Signal Coordination under Oversaturation Conditions
2012,
This article proposes to solve the oversaturated network traffic signal coordination...
Ant colony optimisation for location routing problem and its application to bill delivery services
Ant colony optimisation for location routing problem and its application to bill delivery services
2013,
The location‐routing problem (LRP) belongs to the field of integrated...
A hybrid meta‐heuristic algorithm for solving real‐life transportation network design problems
A hybrid meta‐heuristic algorithm for solving real‐life transportation network design problems
2013,
The network‐design problem (NDP) has a wide range of applications in...
Development and analysis of heuristic algorithms for a two‐stage supply chain allocation problem with a fixed transportation cost
Development and analysis of heuristic algorithms for a two‐stage supply chain allocation problem with a fixed transportation cost
2012,
In a transportation problem, when fixed cost is also taken into account in addition to...
A Simple Ant Colony Optimizer for Stochastic Shortest Path Problems
A Simple Ant Colony Optimizer for Stochastic Shortest Path Problems
2012,
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a popular optimization paradigm inspired by the...
Countering the negative search bias of ant colony optimization in subset selection problems
Countering the negative search bias of ant colony optimization in subset selection problems
2013,
In their quest to find a good solution to a given optimization problem, metaheuristic...
Reliability‐based topology optimization of double layer grids using a two‐stage optimization method
Reliability‐based topology optimization of double layer grids using a two‐stage optimization method
2012,
This paper presents a two‐stage optimization method for...
Transit route network design‐maximizing direct and transfer demand density
Transit route network design‐maximizing direct and transfer demand density
2012,
Transit network design is an important part of urban transportation planning. The...
Self‐organizing maps in population based metaheuristic to the dynamic vehicle routing problem
Self‐organizing maps in population based metaheuristic to the dynamic vehicle routing problem
2012,
We consider the dynamic vehicle routing problem (dynamic VRP). In this problem, new...
Minimising tool switching and indexing times by ant colony optimisation in automatic machining centres
Minimising tool switching and indexing times by ant colony optimisation in automatic machining centres
2012,
This paper proposes an ant algorithm to minimise the total summation of tool switching...
Parameter tuning of ant system using fuzzy logic controller
Parameter tuning of ant system using fuzzy logic controller
2012,
This paper examines the tuning of ant system's (AS's) parameters using fuzzy...
A methodology to solve large‐scale cooperative transportation planning problems
A methodology to solve large‐scale cooperative transportation planning problems
2012,
In this paper, we suggest a methodology to solve a cooperative transportation planning...
Solving software project scheduling problems with ant colony optimization
Solving software project scheduling problems with ant colony optimization
2013,
Software project scheduling problem (SPSP) is one of the important and challenging...
Efficient Transit Schedule Design of timing points: A comparison of Ant Colony and Genetic Algorithms
Efficient Transit Schedule Design of timing points: A comparison of Ant Colony and Genetic Algorithms
2012,
This work defines Transit Schedule Design (TSD) as an optimization problem to...
Makespan minimization on single batch‐processing machine via ant colony optimization
Makespan minimization on single batch‐processing machine via ant colony optimization
2012,
This paper investigates the problem of minimizing makespan on a single...
Decomposition‐based classified ant colony optimization algorithm for scheduling semiconductor wafer fabrication system
Decomposition‐based classified ant colony optimization algorithm for scheduling semiconductor wafer fabrication system
2012,
Due to its typical features, such as large‐scale, multiple re‐entrant...
An efficient hybrid heuristic method for prioritising large transportation projects with interdependent activities
An efficient hybrid heuristic method for prioritising large transportation projects with interdependent activities
2012,
Transportation projects are generally large, with limited resources and highly...
An Ant Colony Optimisation algorithm for solving the asymmetric traffic assignment problem
An Ant Colony Optimisation algorithm for solving the asymmetric traffic assignment problem
2012,
In this paper we propose an Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) algorithm for defining the...
A New Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Lower Bound of Sum Coloring Problem
A New Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Lower Bound of Sum Coloring Problem
2012,
We consider an undirected graph G =( V , E ), the minimum sum coloring problem (MSCP)...
An ant colony optimization algorithm for load balancing in parallel machines with sequence‐dependent setup times
An ant colony optimization algorithm for load balancing in parallel machines with sequence‐dependent setup times
2012,
This study introduces the problem of minimizing average relative percentage of...
Solving the post enrolment course timetabling problem by ant colony optimization
Solving the post enrolment course timetabling problem by ant colony optimization
2012,
In this work we present a new approach to tackle the problem of Post Enrolment Course...
An efficient ant colony system for Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows
An efficient ant colony system for Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows
2011,
This paper presents an efficient algorithm based on a meta‐heuristic Multiple...
A hyper‐solution framework for classification problems via metaheuristic approaches
A hyper‐solution framework for classification problems via metaheuristic approaches
2011,
This is a summary of the author’s PhD thesis, supervised by Prof. Domenico...
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