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Authors: Ali D. Mehrabi 1 ; Saeed Mehrabi 2 and Abbas Mehrabi 3

Affiliations: 1 Yazd University, Iran, Islamic Republic of ; 2 Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran, Islamic Republic of ; 3 Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Keyword(s): Minimum vertex cover problem, Meta-heuristic approaches, Ant colony optimization algorithms.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Artificial Intelligence ; Computational Intelligence ; Evolution Strategies ; Evolutionary Computing ; Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization ; Soft Computing

Abstract: Given an undirected, unweighted graph G = (V , E) the minimum vertex cover (MVC) problem is a subset of V whose cardinality is minimum subject to the premise that the selected vertices cover all edges in the graph. In this paper, we propose a meta-heuristic based on Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) approach to find approximate solutions to the minimum vertex cover problem. By introducing a visible set based on pruning paradigm for ants, in each step of their traversal, they are not forced to consider all of the remaining vertices to select the next one for continuing the traversal, resulting very high improvement in both time and convergence rate of the algorithm. We compare our algorithm with two existing algorithms which are based on Genetic Algorithms (GAs) as well as its testing on a variety of benchmarks. Computational experiments evince that the ACO algorithm demonstrates much effectiveness and consistency for solving the minimum vertex cover problem.

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Paper citation in several formats:
D. Mehrabi, A.; Mehrabi, S. and Mehrabi, A. (2009). A PRUNING BASED ANT COLONY ALGORITHM FOR MINIMUM VERTEX COVER PROBLEM. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2009) - ICEC; ISBN 978-989-674-014-6; ISSN 2184-3236, SciTePress, pages 281-286. DOI: 10.5220/0002313802810286

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author={Ali {D. Mehrabi}. and Saeed Mehrabi. and Abbas Mehrabi.},
title={A PRUNING BASED ANT COLONY ALGORITHM FOR MINIMUM VERTEX COVER PROBLEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2009) - ICEC},
year={2009},
pages={281-286},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002313802810286},
isbn={978-989-674-014-6},
issn={2184-3236},
}

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2009) - ICEC
TI - A PRUNING BASED ANT COLONY ALGORITHM FOR MINIMUM VERTEX COVER PROBLEM
SN - 978-989-674-014-6
IS - 2184-3236
AU - D. Mehrabi, A.
AU - Mehrabi, S.
AU - Mehrabi, A.
PY - 2009
SP - 281
EP - 286
DO - 10.5220/0002313802810286
PB - SciTePress