Balancing Exploration and Exploitation by an Elitist Ant System with Exponential Pheromone Deposition Rule

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dc.creatorAcharya, Ayan
dc.creatorMaiti, Deepyaman
dc.creatorBanerjee, Aritra
dc.creatorKonar, Amit
dc.date2008-11-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:14:47Z
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dc.descriptionThe paper presents an exponential pheromone deposition rule to modify the basic ant system algorithm which employs constant deposition rule. A stability analysis using differential equation is carried out to find out the values of parameters that make the ant system dynamics stable for both kinds of deposition rule. A roadmap of connected cities is chosen as the problem environment where the shortest route between two given cities is required to be discovered. Simulations performed with both forms of deposition approach using Elitist Ant System model reveal that the exponential deposition approach outperforms the classical one by a large extent. Exhaustive experiments are also carried out to find out the optimum setting of different controlling parameters for exponential deposition approach and an empirical relationship between the major controlling parameters of the algorithm and some features of problem environment.
dc.description2008 IEEE Region 10 Colloquium and the Third ICIIS, Kharagpur, INDIA. Paper ID: 250
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0131
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0131
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/173004
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligence
dc.titleBalancing Exploration and Exploitation by an Elitist Ant System with Exponential Pheromone Deposition Rule
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