JOURNAL ARTICLE

Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Traveling Salesman Problem

Wei LiWei Jia LiYuan YangHai Qiang LiaoJi Long LiXi Peng Zheng

Year: 2011 Journal:   Advanced materials research Vol: 314-316 Pages: 2191-2196   Publisher: Trans Tech Publications

Abstract

By combining the modified nearest neighbor approach and the improved inver-over operation, an Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) Algorithm for Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is proposed in this paper. The heuristic approach was tested in some benchmark instances selected from TSPLIB. In addition, a comparison study between the proposed algorithm and the Bee Colony Optimization (BCO) model is presented. Experimental results show that the presented algorithm outperforms the BCO method and can efficiently tackle the small and medium scale TSP instances.

Keywords:
Travelling salesman problem Artificial bee colony algorithm Benchmark (surveying) Mathematical optimization Heuristic Ant colony optimization algorithms Computer science Algorithm Mathematics

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