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Balance between Intensification and Diversification in Ant Colony Optimization

개미 집단 최적화에서 강화와 다양화의 조화

  • 이승관 (경희대학교 후마니타스칼리지) ;
  • 최진혁 (경희대학교 후마니타스칼리지)
  • Received : 2011.02.16
  • Accepted : 2011.03.09
  • Published : 2011.03.28
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Abstract

One of the important fields for heuristic algorithm is how to balance between Intensification and Diversification. In this paper, we deal with the performance improvement techniques through balance the intensification and diversification in Ant Colony System(ACS) which is one of Ant Colony Optimization(ACO). In this paper, we propose the hybrid searching method between intensification strategy and diversification strategy. First, the length of the global optimal path does not improved within the limited iterations, we evaluates this state that fall into the local optimum and selects the next node using changed parameters in the state transition rule. And then we consider the overlapping edge of the global best path of the previous and the current, and, to enhance the pheromone for the overlapping edges increases the probability that the optimal path is configured. Finally, the performance of Best and Average-Best of proposed algorithm outperforms ACS-3-opt, ACS-Subpath, ACS-Iter and ACS-Global-Ovelap algorithms.

휴리스틱 탐색에서 강화(Intensification)와 다양화(Diversification)의 조화는 중요한 연구 부분이다. 본 논문에서는 개미 집단 최적화(Ant Colony Optimization, ACO) 접근법의 하나인 개미 집단 시스템(Ant Colony System, ACS)에서 강화와 다양화의 조화를 통한 성능 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 제안 방법은 다양화 전략으로 전역 최적 경로가 향상되지 않는 경우 반복 탐색 구간을 고려해 상태전이 규칙의 파라미터를 변경해 탐색하고, 이러한 다양화 전략을 통해 발견된 전역 최적 경로에서 이전 전역 최적 경로와 현재 전역 최적 경로의 중복 간선에 대해 페로몬을 강화시켜 탐색하는 혼합된 탐색 방법을 제안한다. 그리고, 실험을 통해 제안된 방법이 기존 ACS-3-opt 알고리즘, ACS-Subpath 알고리즘, ACS-Iter 알고리즘, ACS-Global-Ovelap 알고리즘에 비해 최적 경로 탐색 및 평균 최적 경로 탐색의 성능이 우수함을 보여 준다.

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