Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
384518 Expert Systems with Applications 2009 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

The ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms, which are inspired by the behaviour of ants to find solutions to combinatorial optimization problem, are multi-agent systems. This paper presents the ACO-based algorithm that is used to find the global minimum of a nonconvex function. The algorithm is based on that each ant searches only around the best solution of the previous iteration. This algorithm was tested on some standard test functions, and successful results were obtained. Its performance was compared with the other algorithms, and was observed to be better.

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