An ant colony algorithm on continuous searching space

Jing Xie; Chao Cai

doi:10.1117/12.2205216

14 December 2015 An ant colony algorithm on continuous searching space

Jing Xie, Chao Cai

Proceedings Volume 9814, MIPPR 2015: Parallel Processing of Images and Optimization; and Medical Imaging Processing; 981402 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2205216
Event: Ninth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (MIPPR2015), 2015, Enshi, China

Abstract

Ant colony algorithm is heuristic, bionic and parallel. Because of it is property of positive feedback, parallelism and simplicity to cooperate with other method, it is widely adopted in planning on discrete space. But it is still not good at planning on continuous space. After a basic introduction to the basic ant colony algorithm, we will propose an ant colony algorithm on continuous space. Our method makes use of the following three tricks. We search for the next nodes of the route according to fixed-step to guarantee the continuity of solution. When storing pheromone, it discretizes field of pheromone, clusters states and sums up the values of pheromone of these states. When updating pheromone, it makes good resolutions measured in relative score functions leave more pheromone, so that ant colony algorithm can find a sub-optimal solution in shorter time. The simulated experiment shows that our ant colony algorithm can find sub-optimal solution in relatively shorter time.

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Jing Xie and Chao Cai "An ant colony algorithm on continuous searching space", Proc. SPIE 9814, MIPPR 2015: Parallel Processing of Images and Optimization; and Medical Imaging Processing, 981402 (14 December 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2205216

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