Title
An extended EigenAnt colony system applied to the sequential ordering problem
Abstract
The EigenAnt Ant Colony System (EAAS) model is an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) model based on the EigenAnt algorithm. In previous work, EAAS was found to perform competitively with the Enhanced Ant Colony System (EACS) algorithm, a state-of-the-art method for the Sequential Ordering Problem (SOP). In this paper, we extend EAAS by increasing the amount of stochasticity in its solution construction procedure. In experimental results on the SOPLIB instance library, we find that our proposed method, called Probabilistic EAAS (PEAAS), performs better than both EAAS and EACS. The non-parametric Friedman test is applied to determine statistical significance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/SIS.2014.7011806
Swarm Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
ant colony optimisation,eigenvalues and eigenfunctions,nonparametric statistics,order processing,statistical testing,stochastic processes,ACO model,EACS algorithm,PEAAS model,SOPLIB instance library,ant colony optimization model,eigenant algorithm,eigenant ant colony system model,enhanced ant colony system,nonparametric Friedman test,probabilistic EAAS,sequential ordering problem,solution construction procedure,statistical significance,stochasticity
Friedman test,Ant colony optimization algorithms,Mathematical optimization,Stochastic process,Nonparametric statistics,Sequential ordering problem,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Probabilistic logic,Ant colony
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ahmed Ezzat191.57
Ashraf M. Abdelbar224325.43
Donald C. Wunsch II347244.64
Wunsch, D.C.400.34