Inproceedings836
Time-Scattered Heuristic for the Hardware Implementation of Population-based ACO
Time-Scattered Heuristic for the Hardware Implementation of Population-based ACO
Published: 2004
September
Herausgeber: M. Dorigo et al.
Buchtitel: Ant colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence. Proc. of the ANTS 2004 conference
Ausgabe: 3172
Reihe: LNCS
Seiten: 250-261
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
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We present a new kind of heuristic guidance as an extension to the Population-based Ant Colony Optimization (P-ACO) implemented in hardware on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The heuristic information is obtained by transforming standard heuristic information into small time-scattered heuristic-vectors of favourable ant decisions. This approach is suited for heuristics which allow for an a priori calculation of the heuristics information. Using the proposed method, an ant can build-up a solution in quasi-linear time. Experimental studies measure the performance of the
time-scattered heuristic. A comparison with the standard heuristic and candidate lists is also given.
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