Evolutionary agents for n-queen problems

  • Authors:
  • Weicai Zhong;Jing Liu;Licheng Jiao

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Intelligent Information Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, China;Institute of Intelligent Information Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, China;Institute of Intelligent Information Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, China

  • Venue:
  • ICNC'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advances in Natural Computation - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A novel algorithm, Multi-Agent Evolutionary Algorithm for n-Queen Problem (MAEAqueen), is proposed. In MAEAqueen, all agents live in a latticelike environment, with each agent fixed on a lattice-point. In order to increase energies, they compete with their neighbors, and they can also use knowledge. Theoretical analyses show that MAEAqueen has a linear space complexity. In the experiments, a comparison is made between MAEAqueen and the existing method based on agents. The results show that MAEAqueen outperforms the other method. Furthermore, to study the time complexity of MAEAqueen, the 104~107-queen problems are used. The results show that MAEAqueen has a linear time complexity. Even for 107-queen problems, it can find the exact solutions only by 150 seconds.