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Distributed agent-based ant colony optimization for solving traveling salesman problem on a partitioned map

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Amelia Bădică,

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WIMS '11: Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics

Article No.: 23, Pages 1 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/1988688.1988716

Published: 25 May 2011 Publication History

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In this paper we discuss the experimental evaluation of an improved configuration of our recent framework ACODA (Ant Colony Optimization on a Distributed Architecture) for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). ACODA is a novel multi-agent system architecture for distributed Ant Colony Optimization in a decentralized environment. This new configuration improves the execution time by allowing each software agent of ACODA to manage a part of the TSP map rather than a single map node. Experimental results support this claim of improved efficiency while showing that the scalability of the system is preserved.

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https://doi.org/10.23919/MIPRO.2017.7973596
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Distributed agent-based ant colony optimization for solving traveling salesman problem on a partitioned map
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      1. Software architectures

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DOI:10.1145/1988688

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Kaplar AVidakovic MLuburic NIvanovic M(2017)Improving a distributed agent-based Ant Colony Optimization for Solving Traveling Salesman Problem2017 40th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO)10.23919/MIPRO.2017.7973596(1144-1148)Online publication date: May-2017
https://doi.org/10.23919/MIPRO.2017.7973596
Ivanović MVidaković MBudimac ZMitrović D(2017)A scalable distributed architecture for client and server-side software agentsVietnam Journal of Computer Science10.1007/s40595-016-0083-z4:2(127-137)Online publication date: 1-May-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s40595-016-0083-z
Mitrović DIvanović MVidaković MBudimac Z(2015)A Scalable Distributed Architecture for Web-Based Software AgentsComputational Collective Intelligence10.1007/978-3-319-24069-5_7(67-76)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2015
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24069-5_7
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