一种新的求解TSP问题智能蚁群优化算法

提出了一种新的用于求解TSP问题的智能蚁群优化算法。新算法从TSP问题本身出发,提取出了该问题的一种本质特征,并赋予蚁群算法中的精英蚂蚁以识别该固有特征的能力,以提高精英蚂蚁的搜索质量,进而使得新算法整体的求解能力得以提高。文章中不仅阐述了新算法的原理,而且进行了仿真实验,实验结果表明新算法在求解时间和求解质量上都取得了很好的效果。     

A Hybrid Multi-Swarm Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm for the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem

The Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem (PTSP) is a variation of the classic Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) and one of the most significant stochastic routing problems. In the PTSP, only a subset of potential customers need to be visited on any given instance of the problem. The number of customers to be visited each time is a random variable. In this paper, a new hybrid algorithmic nature inspired approach based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) and Expanding Neighborhood Search (ENS) Strategy is proposed for the solution of the PTSP. The proposed algorithm is tested on numerous benchmark problems from TSPLIB with very satisfactory results. Comparisons with the classic GRASP algorithm, the classic PSO and with a Tabu Search algorithm are also presented. Also, a comparison is performed with the results of a number of implementations of the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm from the literature and in 13 out of 20 cases the proposed algorithm gives a new best solution.     

基于群智能算法的玻璃切割问题求解研究

通过对玻璃切割问题的研究,提出一种融合量子粒子群优化和蚁群优化的混合算法(QPSO-ACO算法)。该算法对QPSO及ACO的模型进行必要的修改,以实现对玻璃切割中的旅行商问题的较好求解。同时充分利用QPSO的快速性、全局收敛性和ACO的正反馈性及求精解效率高等特点,达到优势互补。实验结果表明,QPSO-ACO算法寻优能力较强,是解决玻璃切割问题的有效方法。     

一种改进的蚁群算法在TSP问题中的应用研究

蚁群算法是近几年发展起来的一种新型的拟生态启发式算法,它已经被成功地应用在旅行商(TSP)问题上.由于基本蚁群算法存在过早陷入局部最优解和收敛性较差等缺点,文中对基本蚁群算法在基于蚁群系统的基础上进行了改进,在信息素的更新和解的搜索过程中更多地关注了局部最优解的信息,以使算法尽可能地跳出局部最优,并且改进后的算法对一些关键参数更容易控制.多次实验表明改进的蚁群算法在解决TSP问题上与基本蚁群算法相比有较好的寻优能力和收敛能力.这种算法可以应用在其它组合优化问题上,有一定的工程应用价值.     

A modified ant system to achieve better balance between intensification and diversification for the traveling salesman problem

This paper presents a new variant of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). ACO has been successfully used in many combinatorial optimization problems. However, ACO has a problem in reaching the global optimal solutions for TSPs, and the algorithmic performance of ACO tends to deteriorate significantly as the problem size increases. In the proposed modification, adaptive tour construction and pheromone updating strategies are embedded into the conventional Ant System (AS), to achieve better balance between intensification and diversification in the search process. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested on randomly generated data and well-known existing data. The computational results indicate the proposed modification is effective and efficient for the TSP and competitive with Ant Colony System (ACS), Max-Min Ant System (MMAS), and Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) Meta-Heuristic.     

一种求解TSP问题的粒子群算法改进设计

采用权重编码方案,将面向连续优化的粒子群优化算法应用于旅行商问题的求解,保留了粒子群算法的易操作性和高效性。针对粒子群算法易陷入局部最优的缺陷,提出了适合旅行商问题的基于k-means的改进措施。采用k-means对粒子群进行聚类分析,实现了粒子之间的信息交换,扩大了粒子的搜索空间,避免了算法陷入局部最优。     

The online Prize-Collecting Traveling Salesman Problem

We study the online version of the Prize-Collecting Traveling Salesman Problem (PCTSP), a generalization of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). In the TSP, the salesman has to visit a set of cities while minimizing the length of the overall tour. In the PCTSP, each city has a given weight and penalty, and the goal is to collect a given quota of the weights of the cities while minimizing the length of the tour plus the penalties of the cities not in the tour. In the online version, cities are disclosed over time. We give a 7/3-competitive algorithm for the problem, which compares with a lower bound of 2 on the competitive ratio of any deterministic algorithm. We also show how our approach can be combined with an approximation algorithm in order to obtain an O(1)-competitive algorithm that runs in polynomial time.     

改进的粒子群算法在旅行商问题中的应用

针对基本粒子群优化算法(PSO)容易陷入局部最优的缺点,将模拟退火算法(SA)引入PSO,提出一种新的粒子群算法求解旅行商问题。该算法结合了PSO的快速寻优能力和SA的概率突跳特性,保证了群体的多样性,避免了种群的退化。通过与SA、基本遗传算法和基本蚁群算法进行对比实验,证明了该算法求解TSP的效果最好,且简单易实现、实用性较高。     

基于视觉抓取的并联桁架机器人最优路径控制

针对元件的抓取路径规划问题,提出一种以最小化时间为目的,结合蚁群算法和禁忌搜索算法的混合优化算法。首先,将基于机器视觉抓取元件的问题确定为有约束的旅行商问题（TSP）;然后,分析了元件大小和抓取放置过程对于路径规划的综合影响,对路径选择概率和禁忌域进行了适应性改进;其次,一方面引入了2-opt局部优化以及信息素惩罚、奖励机制以改善蚂蚁的搜索能力,另一方面对信息挥发因子作适应性改进以提高蚂蚁的自适应能力;最后,针对基本算法和改进的混合优化算法,仿真实验和平台实验分别进行了性能指标和抓取时间的对比分析。实验结果表明,仿真环境下,与蚁群优化（ACO）算法和禁忌搜索（TS）算法相比,混合优化算法的平均迭代次数降低了约50%,且其他性能较为优越,平台测试的抓取用时测试结果也说明了混合优化算法较随机结果和基本算法的优越性,可以快速完成元件抓取任务。     

Honey bees mating optimization algorithm for the Euclidean traveling salesman problem

This paper introduces a new hybrid algorithmic nature inspired approach based on Honey Bees Mating Optimization for successfully solving the Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem. The proposed algorithm for the solution of the Traveling Salesman Problem, the Honey Bees Mating Optimization (HBMOTSP), combines a Honey Bees Mating Optimization (HBMO) algorithm, the Multiple Phase Neighborhood Search-Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (MPNS-GRASP) algorithm and the Expanding Neighborhood Search Strategy. Besides these two procedures, the proposed algorithm has, also, two additional main innovative features compared to other Honey Bees Mating Optimization algorithms concerning the crossover operator and the workers. The main contribution of this paper is that it shows that the HBMO can be used in hybrid synthesis with other metaheuristics for the solution of the TSP with remarkable results both to quality and computational efficiency. The proposed algorithm was tested on a set of 74 benchmark instances from the TSPLIB and in all but eleven instances the best known solution has been found. For the rest instances the quality of the produced solution deviates less than 0.1% from the optimum.     

旅行商问题(TSP)的几种求解方法

旅行商问题（TSP）是组合优化领域里的一个典型的、易于描述却难以处理的NP完全难题，其可能的路径数目与城市数目是呈指数型增长的，求解非常困难。而快速、有效地解决TSP有着重要的理论价值和极高的实际应用价值。该文首先介绍了什么是TSP，接着论述了六种目前针对TSP比较有效的解决方法（模拟退火算法、禁忌搜索算法、Hopfield神经网络优化算法、蚁群算法、遗传算法和混合优化策略）的基本思想，并且简单阐述了它们的求解过程，最后分别指出了各自的优缺点并对解决TSP的前景提出了展望。     

蚁群优化结合变邻域搜索求解NWFS调度问题

针对NP-难的最小化时间表长为目标的无等待流水车间调度问题,将此问题转化为旅行商问题.采用蚁群优化求得初始工件排序.在提出的一种新的邻域结构基础上,迭代进行集中和分散的变邻域搜索以改善解.用Rec系列及he11和he12共计23个Benchmark算例进行计算验证,并与RAJ算法进行了比较.结果表明所提出的方法是有效的.     

基于多蚁群的并行ACO算法

通过改变蚁群优化(ACO)算法行为,提出一种新的ACO并行化策略——并行多蚁群ACO算法。针对蚁群算法存在停滞现象的缺点,改进选择策略,实现具有自适应并行机制的选择和搜索策略,以加强其全局搜索能力。并行处理采用数据并行的手段,能减少处理器间的通信时间并获得更好的解。以对称TSP测试集为对象进行比较实验,结果表明,该算法相对于串行算法及现有的并行算法具有一定的优势。     

增强型的蚁群优化算法

旅行商问题是一个NP-Hard组合优化问题。根据蚁群优化算法和旅行商问题的特点,论文提出了对蚁群中具有优质解的蚂蚁个体所走路径上的信息素强度进行增强的方法,并同其他的优化算法进行了比较,仿真结果表明,对具有全局和局部最优解的个体所走路径上的信息素强度进行增强的蚁群优化算法比标准的蚁群优化算法和其他优化算法在执行效率和稳定性上要高。     

改进的求解TSP问题文化蚁群优化方法

在文化算法基础上提出了一种改进的用于求解TSP问题的蚁群优化算法。改进算法采用新的双层进化机制对文化算法的种群空间与信念空间进行了重新设计,用最大最小蚁群系统（MMAS）构建种群空间,在信念空间中对当前最优解进行改进的3-OPT交叉变换操作,由于采用了这种双层进化机制,种群空间获得了更高的进化效率。通过仿真实验结果表明,改进算法比传统的蚁群算法（ACO）、文化蚁群算法（CACS）效果更好,收敛速度更快,精确度更高。     

TSP问题的算法与应用的研究

TSP问题是一个典型的组合优化问题.针对TSP问题的两种主要算法:遗传算法和蚁群算法,进行了分析和研究.并且提出了网络浏览器运行的实现方法,给出了系统实现的B/S三层架构.最后,运用本算法和实现的技术,作为应用实例实现了ERP物流配送路径决策支持系统的原型.     

一种自适应分组的蚁群算法

蚁群优化算法是一种能应用于求解旅行商问题（Traveling Salesman Problem,TSP）的智能算法,但蚁群算法在求解TSP路径规划问题中存在收敛速度慢、易陷入局部最优解问题,而将蚂蚁算法的蚁群分组,能增加全局搜索能力,提高求解路径规划性能。通过分析蚁群分组大小与蚁群算法性能的关系,并提出了一种自适应分组蚁群算法,采用一种随迭代分组数减少策略方法,并将其应用于对TSP路径规划问题求解。通过实验结果对比表明,自适应分组蚁群算法在收敛速度和搜索质量方面都有了明显提高。     

求解TSP的改进信息素二次更新与局部优化蚁群算法

针对蚁群（ACO）算法收敛速度慢、容易陷入局部最优的缺陷,提出了一种改进信息素二次更新局部优化蚁群算法（IPDULACO）。该算法对蚁群搜索到的当前全局最优解中路径贡献度大于给定的路径贡献阈值的子路径信息素进行二次更新,以提高构成潜在最优解的子路径被选择的概率,从而加快算法的收敛。然后,在搜索过程中,当蚁群陷入局部最优时,使用随机插入法对局部最优解中城市的排序进行调整,以增强算法跳出局部最优解的能力。将改进算法应用于若干经典的旅行售货商问题（TSP）进行仿真实验,实验结果表明,对于小规模的TSP,IPDULACO可以在较少的迭代次数内获得已知最优解;对于较大规模的TSP,IPDULACO可以在较少的迭代次数内获得更精确的解。因此,IPDULACO具有更强的搜索全局最优解的能力和更快的收敛速度,可以高效求解TSP。     

A comparative study of the improvement of performance using a PSO modified by ACO applied to TSP

Swarm-inspired optimization has become very popular in recent years. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) and Ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms have attracted the interest of researchers due to their simplicity, effectiveness and efficiency in solving complex optimization problems. Both ACO and PSO were successfully applied for solving the traveling salesman problem (TSP). Performance of the conventional PSO algorithm for small problems with moderate dimensions and search space is very satisfactory. As the search, space gets more complex, conventional approaches tend to offer poor solutions. This paper presents a novel approach by introducing a PSO, which is modified by the ACO algorithm to improve the performance. The new hybrid method (PSO–ACO) is validated using the TSP benchmarks and the empirical results considering the completion time and the best length, illustrate that the proposed method is efficient.     

A correction algorithm for token-passing sequences in mobile communication networks

We present a distributed approximation algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) in networks that use a broadcast, multiaccess communication channel. The application for which the algorithm was originally designed is maintaining a short token-passing path (which means low scheduling overhead) in radio networks with mobile nodes. The algorithm is adaptive in the sense that it shifts gradually between performing a slight correction of an existing tour and recomputing one “from scratch.” It can thus be viewed as a generalization, or extension, of conventional TSP algorithms. The proposed algorithm guarantees the same worst-case tour length as the one guaranteed by any conventional “from scratch” algorithm, yet it is capable of taking advantage of certain node layouts (e.g., geographically clustered nodes) to reduce the cost of computing the path. The correction algorithm is suitable for dynamic graphs with slowly changing edge weights, and for which a Traveling Salesman tour (optimal or approximate) has previously been computed and is “deteriorating” with time due to the weight changes. The algorithm can be used to “refresh” the tour whenever it deteriorates beyond a given level, and thus maintain a reasonable average tour length at relatively low computation and communication costs. For a Euclidean graph withn nodes laid out in a bounded area with diameterD, the maximal length of the tour produced by the algorithm is proportional toD√n, like the maximal length of an optimal tour in that graph (the two differ by a factor of 2 at the worst case).