An Empirical Analysis of Multiple Objective Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms for the Bi-criteria TSP

The difficulty to solve multiple objective combinatorial optimization problems with traditional techniques has urged researchers to look for alternative, better performing approaches for them. Recently, several algorithms have been proposed which are based on the Ant Colony Optimization metaheuristic. In this contribution, the existing algorithms of this kind are reviewed and experimentally tested in several instances of the bi-objective traveling salesman problem, comparing their performance with that of two well-known multi-objective genetic algorithms.

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