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A Effective Ant Colony Algorithm applied to the Graph Coloring Problem (그래프 착색 문제에 적용된 효과적인 Ant Colony Algorithm에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn, Sang-Huck;Lee, Seung-Gwan;Chung, Tae-Choong
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.11B no.2
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    • pp.221-226
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    • 2004
  • Ant Colony System(ACS) Algorithm is new meta-heuristic for hard combinational optimization problem. It is a population-based approach that uses exploitation of positive feedback as well as greedy search. Recently, various methods and solutions are proposed to solve optimal solution of graph coloring problem that assign to color for adjacency node($v_i, v_j$) that they has not same color. In this paper introducing ANTCOL Algorithm that is method to solve solution by Ant Colony System algorithm that is not method that it is known well as solution of existent graph coloring problem. After introducing ACS algorithm and Assignment Type Problem, show the wav how to apply ACS to solve ATP And compare graph coloring result and execution time when use existent generating functions(ANT_Random, ANT_LF, ANT_SL, ANT_DSATUR, ANT_RLF method) with ANT_XRLF method that use XRLF that apply Randomize to RLF to solve ANTCOL. Also compare graph coloring result and execution time when use method to add re-search to ANT_XRLF(ANT_XRLF_R) with existent generating functions.

Ant-based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (개미 시스템을 이용한 무선 센서 네트워크 라우팅 알고리즘 개발)

  • Ok, Chang-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.53-69
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    • 2010
  • This paper proposes an ant-based routing algorithm, Ant System-Routing in wireless Senor Networks(AS-RSN), for wireless sensor networks. Using a transition rule in Ant System, sensors can spread data traffic over the whole network to achieve energy balance, and consequently, maximize the lifetime of sensor networks. The transition rule advances one of the original Ant System by re-defining link cost which is a metric devised to consider energy-sufficiency as well as energy-efficiency. This metric gives rise to the design of the AS-RSN algorithm devised to balance the data traffic of sensor networks in a decentralized manner and consequently prolong the lifetime of the networks. Therefore, AS-RSN is scalable in the number of sensors and also robust to the variations in the dynamics of event generation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm by comparing three existing routing algorithms: Direct Communication Approach, Minimum Transmission Energy, and Self-Organized Routing and find that energy balance should be considered to extend lifetime of sensor network and increase robustness of sensor network for diverse event generation patterns.

Solving the Gale-Shapley Problem by Ant-Q learning (Ant-Q 학습을 이용한 Gale-Shapley 문제 해결에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyun;Chung, Tae-Choong
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.18B no.3
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    • pp.165-172
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we propose Ant-Q learning Algorithm[1], which uses the habits of biological ants, to find a new way to solve Stable Marriage Problem(SMP)[3] presented by Gale-Shapley[2]. The issue of SMP is to find optimum matching for a stable marriage based on their preference lists (PL). The problem of Gale-Shapley algorithm is to get a stable matching for only male (or female). We propose other way to satisfy various requirements for SMP. ACS(Ant colony system) is an swarm intelligence method to find optimal solution by using phermone of ants. We try to improve ACS technique by adding Q learning[9] concept. This Ant-Q method can solve SMP problem for various requirements. The experiment results shows the proposed method is good for the problem.

An Effective Ant Colony System Optimization for Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem (Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem을 해결하기 위해 Ant Colony System에서의 효과적인 최적화 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Tae-Ung;Lee, Sung-Gwan;Jung, Tae-Chung
    • Annual Conference of KIPS
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.321-324
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    • 2000
  • 조합 최적화 문제인 Traveling Salesman problems(TSP)을 Genetic Algorithm(GA)[3]과 Local Search Heuristic Algorithm[8]을 이용하여 접근하는 것은 최적해를 구하기 위해 널리 알려진 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 TSP문제를 해결하기 위한 또 다른 접근법으로, 다수의 Ant들이 Tour들을 찾는 ACS(Ant Colony System) Algorithms[4][6][7]을 소개하고, ACS에서 Global Optima를 찾는 과정에서, 이미 이루어져 있는 Ant들의 Tour결과들을 서로 비교한다. Global Updating Rule에 의해 Global Best Tour 에 속해 있는 각 Ant Tour의 edge들을 update하는 ACS Algorithm에, 각 루프마다 Ant Tour들을 우성과 열성 인자들로 구분하고, 각각의 우성과 열성 인자들에 대해서 Global Updating Rule에 기반한 가중치를 적용(Weight Updating Rule)하므로서 기존의 ACS Algorithm보다 효율적으로 최적 해를 찾아내는 방법에 대해서 논하고자 한다.

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A Reinforcement Loaming Method using TD-Error in Ant Colony System (개미 집단 시스템에서 TD-오류를 이용한 강화학습 기법)

  • Lee, Seung-Gwan;Chung, Tae-Choong
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.11B no.1
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2004
  • Reinforcement learning takes reward about selecting action when agent chooses some action and did state transition in Present state. this can be the important subject in reinforcement learning as temporal-credit assignment problems. In this paper, by new meta heuristic method to solve hard combinational optimization problem, examine Ant-Q learning method that is proposed to solve Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) to approach that is based for population that use positive feedback as well as greedy search. And, suggest Ant-TD reinforcement learning method that apply state transition through diversification strategy to this method and TD-error. We can show through experiments that the reinforcement learning method proposed in this Paper can find out an optimal solution faster than other reinforcement learning method like ACS and Ant-Q learning.

A Study of Ant Colony System Design for Multicast Routing (멀티캐스트 라우팅을 위한 Ant Colony System 설계에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Sung-Geun;Han, Chi-Geun
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.10A no.4
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    • pp.369-374
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    • 2003
  • Ant Algorithm is used to find the solution of Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Real ants are capable of finding the shortest path from a food source to their nest without using visual informations. This behavior of real ants has inspired ant algorithm. There are various versions of Ant Algorithm. Ant Colony System (ACS) is introduced lately. ACS is applied to the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) for verifying the availability of ACS and evaluating the performance of ACS. ACS find a good solution for TSP When ACS is applied to different Combinatorial Optimization Problems, ACS uses the same parameters and strategies that were used for TSP. In this paper, ACS is applied to the Multicast Routing Problem. This Problem is to find the paths from a source to all destination nodes. This definition differs from that of TSP and differs from finding paths which are the shortest paths from source node to each destination nodes. We introduce parameters and strategies of ACS for Multicasting Routing Problem.

Hybrid Method of Max-Min Ant System and Rank-based Ant System for Optimal Design of Location Management in Wireless Network (무선통신네트워크에서 위치관리 최적설계를 위한 최대-최소개미시스템과 랭크개미시스템의 혼합 방법)

  • Kim, Sung-Soo;Kim, Hyung-Jun;An, Jun-Sik;Kim, Il-Hwan
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.56 no.7
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    • pp.1309-1314
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    • 2007
  • The assignment of cells to reporting or non-reporting cells is an NP-hard problem having an exponential complexity in the Reporting Cell Location Management (RCLM) system. Frequent location update may result in degradation of quality of service due to interference. Miss on the location of a mobile terminal will necessitate a search operation on the network when a call comes in. The number of reporting cells and which cell must be reporting cell should be determined to balance the registration (location update) and search (paging) operations to minimize the cost of RCLM system. T1is paper compares Max-Min ant system (MMAS), rank-based ant system (RAS) and hybrid method of MMAS and RAS that generally used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. Experimental results demonstrate that hybrid method of MMAS and RAS is an effective and competitive approach in fairly satisfactory results with respect to solution quality and execution time for the optimal design of location management system.

A Study about Additional Reinforcement in Local Updating and Global Updating for Efficient Path Search in Ant Colony System (Ant Colony System에서 효율적 경로 탐색을 위한 지역갱신과 전역갱신에서의 추가 강화에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Seung-Gwan;Chung, Tae-Choong
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.10B no.3
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    • pp.237-242
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    • 2003
  • Ant Colony System (ACS) Algorithm is new meta heuristic for hard combinatorial optimization problem. It is a population based approach that uses exploitation of positive feedback as well as greedy search. It was first proposed for tackling the well known Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). In this paper, we introduce ACS of new method that adds reinforcement value for each edge that visit to Local/Global updating rule. and the performance results under various conditions are conducted, and the comparision between the original ACS and the proposed method is shown. It turns out that our proposed method can compete with tile original ACS in terms of solution quality and computation speed to these problem.

A Hybrid Method Based on Genetic Algorithm and Ant Colony System for Traffic Routing Optimization

  • Thi-Hau Nguyen;Ha-Nam Nguyen;Dang-Nhac Lu;Duc-Nhan Nguyen
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.8
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    • pp.85-90
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    • 2023
  • The Ant Colony System (ACS) is a variant of Ant colony optimization algorithm which is well-known in Traveling Salesman Problem. This paper proposed a hybrid method based on genetic algorithm (GA) and ant colony system (ACS), called GACS, to solve traffic routing problem. In the GACS, we use genetic algorithm to optimize the ACS parameters that aims to attain the shortest trips and time through new functions to help the ants to update global and local pheromones. Our experiments are performed by the GACS framework which is developed from VANETsim with the ability of real map loading from open street map project, and updating traffic light in real-time. The obtained results show that our framework acquired higher performance than A-Star and classical ACS algorithms in terms of length of the best global tour and the time for trip.

Application of Ant colony Algorithm for Loss Minimization in Distribution Systems (배전 계통의 손실 최소화를 위한 개미 군집 알고리즘의 적용)

  • Jeon, Young-Jae;Kim, Jae-Chul
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.188-196
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    • 2001
  • This paper presents and efficient algorithm for the loss minimization by automatic sectionalizing switch operation in distribution systems. Ant colony algorithm is multi-agent system in which the behaviour of each single agent, called artificial ant, is inspired by the behaviour of real ants. Ant colony algorithm is suitable for combinatiorial optimization problem as network reconfiguration because it use the long term memory, called pheromone, and heuristic information with the property of the problem. The proposed methodology with some adoptions have been applied to improve the computation time and convergence property. Numerical examples demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed methodology using a KEPCO's distribution system.

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