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Multi-objective ant colony optimization

Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization (MOACO) is a swarm-intelligence metaheuristic that extends the classic Ant Colony Optimization framework to simultaneously optimize two or more conflicting objectives. Artificial ants construct candidate solutions guided by pheromone trails and heuristic information, progressively building an archive of Pareto-optimal solutions rather than converging to a single best answer.

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Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization (MOACO)
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  • Gambardella, L. M., Taillard, E., & Agazzi, G. (1999). MACS-VRPTW: A multiple ant colony system for vehicle routing problems with time windows. In D. Corne, M. Dorigo, & F. Glover (Eds.), New Ideas in Optimization (pp. 63–76). McGraw-Hill. · URL
  • Dorigo, M., & Stützle, T. (2004). Ant Colony Optimization. MIT Press. · ISBN 9780262042192
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