Journal on Communications ›› 2013, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (4): 165-170.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2013.04.020

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Improved ant colony algorithm based on natural selection strategy for solving TSP problem

Hua-feng WU1,Xin-qiang CHEN1,Qi-huang MAO1,Qian-nan ZHANG1,Shou-chun ZHANG2   

  1. 1 Merchant Marine College,Shanghai Maritime University,Shanghai 201306,China
    2 College of Information Engineering,Shanghai Maritime University,Shanghai 201306,China
  • Online:2013-04-25 Published:2017-07-17
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The Science and Technology Comm ee Foundation of Shanghai Municipality;The Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipality Education Commission;“Shu Guang”Project of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation

Abstract:

To solve basic ant colony algorithm's drawbacks of low convergence rate,easiness of trapping in local optimal solution,an improved ant colony algorithm based on natural selection was proposed.The improved algorithm employed evolution strategy of survival the fittest in natural lection to enhance pheromones in paths whose random evolution factor was bigger than threshold of evolution drift factor in each process of iteration.It could accelerate convergence rate effectively.Besides the introduction of random evolution factor reduced probability of trapping local optimal solution notably.The proposed algorithm was applied to classic TSP problem to find better solution for TSP.Simulation results depict the improved algorithm has better optimal solution and higher convergence rate.

Key words: ant colony algorithm, natural selection, TSP, random evolution factor, threshold of evolution drift

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