A Unifying Survey of Agent-Based Approaches for Equality-Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem
Volume 26, Issue 3 (2015), pp. 509–522
Pub. online: 1 January 2015
Type: Research Article
Received
1 November 2013
1 November 2013
Accepted
1 September 2014
1 September 2014
Published
1 January 2015
1 January 2015
Abstract
The Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem is one of a well known complex combinatorial optimization problems. Equality-Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem is a particular case of it. The main objective of the problem it is to find a minimum cost tour passing through exactly one node from each cluster of a large-scale undirected graph. Multi-agent approaches are successfully used nowadays for solving real life complex problems. The aim of the current paper is to illustrate some agent-based algorithms, including particular ant-based models and virtual robots-agents with specific properties for solving Equality-Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem.