Ant Colony Optimization and Genetic Algorithms for the TSP
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I am working on a project about VRPTW by using Ant Colony Optimization. This graphical TSP solver may give me a lot of help if I can use it. And is it capable for solving VRPTW rather than TSP? Since I am not a computer science student so I am searching for some ACO simulation software. Hope you are willing to share your work to me=]
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@IvanovGeorge in c language
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Do you mean ANT-NET? The routing algorithm?
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It is still surprising how often people use genetic algorithms. You can do a lot better with standard optimization algorithms where you even get a guarantee on optimality. Especially TSP and related problems. You can solve TSP with thousands of cities to optimality. Genetic algorithms etc. are far away from achieving this.
EasterPaul 2 months ago
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For what I know... the state of the art optimal algorithms... for solving TSP... just like for any NP Complete problem are quite slow... such heuristic approaches are good for getting very good solutions in little time... it depends what you want your algorithm to do... I'm not saying that this is the best approach... I'm saying its one of the many approaches... plus I find them to be very fun :P
IvanovGeorge 2 months ago
Hey Im working on generic genetic algorithm, i ve done the part that solves permutation problems like TSP and Magic Cube. Can you tell me what are the problems that are solved with binary and value encoding? and how is value encoding done?
Thank you!
mudasir1113 3 months ago
@mudasir1113 Hello! I dont really understand your question... do you mean like solving general continuous variable optimization problems?
IvanovGeorge 3 months ago
alfa, not alpha?
xphreakyphilx 3 months ago
@xphreakyphilx Wow... you caught me! the interface is a combination of romanian and english... :P
IvanovGeorge 3 months ago