NDLI: On some applications of ant colony optimization metaheuristic to plane truss optimization

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Author	Serra, M. Venini, P.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Ant colony optimization metaheuristic (ACO) represents a new class of algorithms particularly suited to solve real-world combinatorial optimization problems. ACO algorithms, published for the first time in 1991 by M. Dorigo [Optimization, learning and natural algorithms (in Italian). Ph.D. Thesis, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, 1992] and his coworkers, have been applied, particularly starting from 1999 (Bonabeau et al., Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999; Dorigo et al., Artificial life 5(2):137–172, 1999; Dorigo and Di Caro, Ant colony optimization: a new metaheuristic, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 1999; Dorigo et al., Ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2004; Dorigo and Stutzle, Ant colony optimization, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004), to several kinds of optimization problems such as the traveling salesman problem, quadratic assignment problem, vehicle routing, sequential ordering, scheduling, graph coloring, management of communications networks, and so on. The ant colony optimization metaheuristic takes inspiration from the studies of real ant colonies’ foraging behavior. The main characteristic of such colonies is that individuals have no global knowledge of problem solving but communicate indirectly among themselves, depositing on the ground a chemical substance called pheromone, which influences probabilistically the choice of subsequent ants, which tend to follow paths where the pheromone concentration is higher. Such behavior, called stigmergy, is the basic mechanism that controls ant activity and permits them to take the shortest path connecting their nest to a food source. In this paper, it is shown how to convert natural ant behavior to algorithms able to escape from local minima and find global minimum solutions to constrained combinatorial problems. Some examples on plane trusses are also presented.
Starting Page	499
Ending Page	506
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1615147X
Journal	Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	16151488
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2006-08-05
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Metaheuristic Truss Structural combinatorial optimization Engineering Design Numerical and Computational Methods in Engineering Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Control and Optimization Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Control and Systems Engineering Computer Science Applications Software

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