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We investigate strategies for pheromone modification of ant algorithms in reaction to the insertion/deletion of a city of Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) instances. Three strategies for pheromone diversification through equalization of the pheromone values on the edges are proposed and compared. One strategy acts globally without consideration of the position of the inserted/deleted city. The other strategies perform pheromone modification only in the neighborhood of the inserted/deleted city, where neighborhood is defined differently for the two strategies. We furthermore evaluate different parameter settings for each of the strategies.
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Guntsch, M., Middendorf, M. (2001). Pheromone Modification Strategies for Ant Algorithms Applied to Dynamic TSP. In: Boers, E.J.W. (eds) Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2037. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45365-2_22
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