*** [One Month Reminder] ORS Local Sear ch Talk (in association with the School of Mathematics, University of Car diff and SWORDS) ***

[Harrison Andrew <SAHARRISON@mail.dstl.gov.uk>]

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> Operational Research Society Local Search Study Group (in association with
> the School of Mathematics, University of Cardiff and SWORDS)
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> Title: Ant Colony Optimisation
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> Speaker: Dr Jonathan Thompson
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> Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Cardiff
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> Venue: Room M0.40, School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, Cardiff,
> CF24 4YH 
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> Time: Meet in the Internet Cafe (Maths Dept) for refreshments at 5:30 (for
> a 6pm start)
> Date: Tuesday 26th October 2004
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> Map available from: http://www.cf.ac.uk/maths/school.html
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> Abstract:
>  Ant colony optimisation (ACO) is an evolutionary search procedure based
> on the
> way that ant colonies co-operate in locating shortest routes to food
> sources.
> Early implementations focussed on the travelling salesman and other
> routing
> problems but it is now being applied to an increasingly diverse range of
> combinatorial optimisation problems. This talk will give an overview of
> ACO and
> demonstrate its effectiveness on both non-routing problems, specifically
> timetabling and scheduling problems, and dynamic problems (the dynamic
> vehicle
> routing problem). A number of enhancements and modifications to the
> original
> algorithm are introduced and shown to produce competitive results. 
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