An Improvement to Ant Colony Optimization Heuristic

  • Authors:
  • Youmei Li;Zongben Xu;Feilong Cao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Shaoxing College of Arts and Sciences, Shaoxing, China 312000;Institute for Information and System Sciences, Faculty of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China 710049;Department of Information and Mathematics Sciences, College of Science, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China 310018

  • Venue:
  • ISNN '08 Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Neural Networks: Advances in Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) heuristic provides a relatively easy and direct method to handle problem's constraints (through introducing the so called solution construction process), while in the other heuristics, constraint-handling is normally sophisticated. But this makes its solving process slow for the solution construction process occupies most part of its computation time. In this paper, we propose a strategy to hybridize Hopfield discrete neural networks (HDNN) with ACO heuristic for maximum independent set (MIS) problems. Several simulation instances showed that the strategy can greatly improve ACO heuristic performance not only in time cost but also in solution quality.