Ant colony optimization theory: a survey
Theoretical Computer Science
Savings based ant colony optimization for the capacitated minimum spanning tree problem
Computers and Operations Research
Computers and Operations Research
ACO vs EAs for solving a real-world frequency assignment problem in GSM networks
Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
A new ant colony optimization algorithm for the multidimensional Knapsack problem
Computers and Operations Research
Computational Optimization and Applications
Solution bias in ant colony optimisation: Lessons for selecting pheromone models
Computers and Operations Research
Ants can solve the team orienteering problem
Computers and Industrial Engineering
An ant colony optimization algorithm for DNA sequencing by hybridization
Computers and Operations Research
An ACO algorithm to design UMTS access network using divided and conquer technique
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Metaheuristics for solving a real-world frequency assignment problem in GSM networks
Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
ICANNGA '07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, Part II
Ant Colony Optimization for Energy-Efficient Broadcasting in Ad-Hoc Networks
ANTS '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
Two-Level ACO for Haplotype Inference Under Pure Parsimony
ANTS '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
Ant Based Heuristics for the Capacitated Fixed Charge Location Problem
ANTS '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
VERY STRONGLY CONSTRAINED PROBLEMS: AN ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION APPROACH
Cybernetics and Systems
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology - Fuzzy theory and technology with applications
An attribute-based ant colony system for adaptive learning object recommendation
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
WSEAS Transactions on Computers
Text feature selection using ant colony optimization
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Using Ant Colony Optimization algorithm for solving project management problems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
EvoCOP '09 Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization
Beam-ACO Based on Stochastic Sampling for Makespan Optimization Concerning the TSP with Time Windows
EvoCOP '09 Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization
Group shops scheduling with makespan criterion subject to random release dates and processing times
Computers and Operations Research
A novel ACO-GA hybrid algorithm for feature selection in protein function prediction
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Computers and Operations Research
Ant colony optimization incorporated with fuzzy Q-learning for reinforcement fuzzy control
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Savings based ant colony optimization for the capacitated minimum spanning tree problem
Computers and Operations Research
An integrated framework of hybrid evolutionary computations
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Hybridizing Beam-ACO with Constraint Programming for Single Machine Job Scheduling
HM '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Reinforcement self-organizing interval type-2 fuzzy system with ant colony optimization
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
A secure partition-based document image watermarking scheme
International Journal of Information and Computer Security
Beam-ACO for the travelling salesman problem with time windows
Computers and Operations Research
New ideas for applying ant colony optimization to the set covering problem
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Guiding ACO by problem relaxation: a case study on the symmetric TSP
HM'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Hybrid metaheuristics
HM'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Hybrid metaheuristics
A novel quantum ant colony optimization algorithm
LSMS'07 Proceedings of the Life system modeling and simulation 2007 international conference on Bio-Inspired computational intelligence and applications
EvoCOP'08 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Evolutionary computation in combinatorial optimization
An ant colony optimization metaheuristic for machine-part cell formation problems
Computers and Operations Research
A cellular ant colony optimisation for the generalised Steiner problem
International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications
Optimizing discounted cash flows in project scheduling: an ant colony optimization approach
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
An ant colony optimization approach to the multiple-choice multidimensional knapsack problem
Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
A software model to prototype ant colony optimization algorithms
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Text-independent speaker verification using ant colony optimization-based selected features
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Recourse-based facility-location problems in hybrid uncertain environment
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics - Special issue on gait analysis
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A nature-inspired algorithm for the disjoint paths problem
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Feature selection using ant colony optimization for text-independent speaker verification system
ISICA'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advances in computation and intelligence
A hybrid method for learning Bayesian networks based on ant colony optimization
Applied Soft Computing
Collaborative optimization under a control framework for ATSP
ICSI'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Advances in swarm intelligence - Volume Part I
Two-stage updating pheromone for invariant ant colony optimization algorithm
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Adaptive parallel ant colony algorithm
ICNC'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advances in Natural Computation - Volume Part II
Application of ACO in continuous domain
ICNC'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Advances in Natural Computation - Volume Part II
Integration of ant colony SOM and k-means for clustering analysis
KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part I
A new ant colony optimization applied for the multidimensional knapsack problem
SEAL'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning
Adaptive parallel ant colony optimization
ISPA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
A binary ant colony optimization for the unconstrained function optimization problem
CIS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Computational Intelligence and Security - Volume Part I
A hybrid ant colony optimization algorithm for optimal multiuser detection in DS-UWB system
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Beam-ACO applied to assembly line balancing
ANTS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
On the invariance of ant system
ANTS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
ANTS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
Introducing a binary ant colony optimization
ANTS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
Multi-level ant colony optimization for DNA sequencing by hybridization
HM'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Hybrid Metaheuristics
Distribution systems reconfiguration using the hyper-cube ant colony optimization algorithm
SEMCCO'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing - Volume Part II
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Active leading through obstacles using ant-colony algorithm
Neurocomputing
DACCO: a discrete ant colony algorithm to cluster geometry optimization
Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
A method for avoiding the feedback searching bias in ant colony optimization
ICSI'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence - Volume Part I
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
Hybrid algorithms for the minimum-weight rooted arborescence problem
ANTS'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Swarm Intelligence
Countering the negative search bias of ant colony optimization in subset selection problems
Computers and Operations Research
A model induced max-min ant colony optimization for asymmetric traveling salesman problem
Applied Soft Computing
Single line train scheduling with ACO
EvoCOP'13 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization
On the performance of ACO-based methods in p2p resource discovery
Applied Soft Computing
A method for avoiding the searching bias in ACO deceptive problem solving
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
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Ant colony optimization is a metaheuristic approach belonging to the class of model-based search algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new framework for implementing ant colony optimization algorithms called the hyper-cube framework for ant colony optimization. In contrast to the usual way of implementing ant colony optimization algorithms, this framework limits the pheromone values to the interval [0,1]. This is obtained by introducing changes in the pheromone value update rule. These changes can in general be applied to any pheromone value update rule used in ant colony optimization. We discuss the benefits coming with this new framework. The benefits are twofold. On the theoretical side, the new framework allows us to prove that in the ant system, the ancestor of all ant colony optimization algorithms, the average quality of the solutions produced increases in expectation over time when applied to unconstrained problems. On the practical side, the new framework automatically handles the scaling of the objective function values. We experimentally show that this leads on average to a more robust behavior of ant colony optimization algorithms.