Abstract

To overcome the defect of the classical ant colony algorithm’s slow convergence speed, and its vulnerability to local optimization, the authors propose Parallel Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm Based on Multiplicate Pheromon Declining to solve Traveling Salesman Problem according to the characteristics of natural ant colony multi-group and pheromone updating features of ant colony algorithm, combined with OpenMP parallel programming idea. The new algorithm combines three different pheromone updating methods to make a new declining pheromone updating method. It effectively reduces the impact of pheromone on the non-optimal path in the ants parade loop to subsequent ants and improves the parade quality of subsequent ants. It makes full use of multi-core CPU's computing power and improves the efficiency significantly. The new algorithm is compared with ACO through experiments. The results show that the new algorithm has faster convergence rate and better ability of global optimization than ACO.

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