A Discrete Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem

A Discrete Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem

The fruit fly optimization algorithm (FOA) is a newly developed bio-inspired algorithm. The continuous variant version of FOA has been proven to be a powerful evolutionary approach to determining the optima of a numerical function on a continuous definition domain. In this study, a discrete FOA (DFOA) is developed and applied to the traveling salesman problem (TSP), a common combinatorial probl...

A Discrete State Transition Algorithm for Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem

Generalized traveling salesman problem (GTSP) is an extension of classical traveling salesman problem (TSP), which is a combinatorial optimization problem and an NP-hard problem. In this paper, an efficient discrete state transition algorithm (DSTA) for GTSP is proposed, where a new local search operator named K-circle, directed by neighborhood information in space, has been introduced to DSTA ...

A reactive bone route algorithm for solving the traveling salesman problem

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is a well-known optimization problem in graph theory, as well as in operations research that has nowadays received much attention because of its practical applications in industrial and service problems. In this problem, a salesman starts to move from an arbitrary place called depot and after visits all of the nodes, finally comes back to the depot. The obje...

A Modified Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem

an effective ant colony algorithm for the traveling salesman problem

the traveling salesman problem (tsp) is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem and holds a central place in logistics management. the tsp has received much attention because of its practical applications in industrial problems. many exact, heuristic and metaheuristic approaches have been proposed to solve tsp in recent years. in this paper, a modified ant colony optimization (maco) is ...