Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2003, Volume 2611/2003, 127-134, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36605-9_16

New Ideas for Applying Ant Colony Optimization to the Probabilistic TSP

Jürgen Branke and Michael Guntsch

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Abstract

The Probabilistic Traveling Salesperson Problem (PTSP) is a stochastic variant of the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP); each customer has to be serviced only with a given probability. The goal is to find an a priori tour with shortest expected tour-length, with the customers being served in the specified order and customers not requiring service being skipped. In this paper, we use the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) metaheuristic to construct solutions for PTSP. We propose two new heuristic guidance schemes for this problem, and examine the idea of using approximations to calculate the expected tour length. This allows to find better solutions or use less time than the standard ACO approach.

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