A HYBRID ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING THE TERMINAL ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM

Eugénia Moreira Bernardino, Anabela Moreira Bernardino, Juan Manuel Sánchez-Pérez, Juan Antonio Gomez Pulido, Miguel Ángel Vega-Rodríguez

2009

Abstract

The past two decades have witnessed tremendous research activities in optimization methods for communication networks. One important problem in communication networks is the Terminal Assignment Problem. This problem involves determining minimum cost links to form a network by connecting a collection of terminals to a collection of concentrators. In this paper, we propose a Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm to solve the Terminal Assignment Problem. We compare our results with the results obtained by the standard Genetic Algorithm, the Tabu Search Algorithm and the Hybrid Differential Evolution Algorithm, used in literature.

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Moreira Bernardino E., Moreira Bernardino A., Manuel Sánchez-Pérez J., Antonio Gomez Pulido J. and Ángel Vega-Rodríguez M. (2009). A HYBRID ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING THE TERMINAL ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM . In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-014-6, pages 144-151. DOI: 10.5220/0002322001440151


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@conference{icec09,
author={Eugénia Moreira Bernardino and Anabela Moreira Bernardino and Juan Manuel Sánchez-Pérez and Juan Antonio Gomez Pulido and Miguel Ángel Vega-Rodríguez},
title={A HYBRID ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING THE TERMINAL ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={144-151},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002322001440151},
isbn={978-989-674-014-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009)
TI - A HYBRID ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING THE TERMINAL ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM
SN - 978-989-674-014-6
AU - Moreira Bernardino E.
AU - Moreira Bernardino A.
AU - Manuel Sánchez-Pérez J.
AU - Antonio Gomez Pulido J.
AU - Ángel Vega-Rodríguez M.
PY - 2009
SP - 144
EP - 151
DO - 10.5220/0002322001440151