Abstract
An ant colony optimization (ACO) is employed to solve uncapacitated facility location (UFL) problem, which is one of the most widely studied in combinatorial optimization. This is the first approach to solve this problem using ACO technique. Various exact algorithms like branch and bound, linear programming, Lagrangean relaxation algorithms had already been used to solve the problem. On the other hand the meta heuristic approach like continuous particle swarm optimization algorithm (CPSO) [1] has been found very useful to solve this problem. The same benchmark suites that were used in CPSO algorithm collected from OR-library [2] are applied here.
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