| Article ID: | iaor20081417 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 172 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 40 |
| End Page Number: | 48 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
| Journal: | Applied Mathematics and Computation |
| Authors: | Ahmed E., Elettreby M.F. |
| Keywords: | programming: travelling salesman |
Some multiobjective combinatorial problems are solved using methods motivated by biology. The first method is extremal optimization which is motivated by the immune system. The second method is backward–forward greedy method which is motivated by the ant's foraging methods.