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The difficulty to solve multiple objective combinatorial optimization problems with traditional techniques has urged researchers to look for alternative, better performing approaches for them. Recently, several algorithms have been proposed which are based on the Ant Colony Optimization metaheuristic. In this contribution, the existing algorithms of this kind are reviewed and experimentally tested in several instances of the bi-objective traveling salesman problem, comparing their performance with that of two well-known multi-objective genetic algorithms.
This work was partially supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología under project TIC2003-00877 (including FEDER fundings) and under Network HEUR TIC2002-10866-E.
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García-Martínez, C., Cordón, O., Herrera, F. (2004). An Empirical Analysis of Multiple Objective Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms for the Bi-criteria TSP. In: Dorigo, M., Birattari, M., Blum, C., Gambardella, L.M., Mondada, F., Stützle, T. (eds) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence. ANTS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28646-2_6
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