A genetic simplified swarm algorithm for optimizing n-cities open loop travelling salesman problem

Open Loop Travelling Salesman Problem (OTSP) is one of the extension of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) that finding a shortest tour of a number of cities by visiting each city exactly once and do not rerurning to the starting city. In the past, TSP and OTSP has been applied in various vehicle rou...

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Main Author: Chieng, Hock Hung
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description Open Loop Travelling Salesman Problem (OTSP) is one of the extension of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) that finding a shortest tour of a number of cities by visiting each city exactly once and do not rerurning to the starting city. In the past, TSP and OTSP has been applied in various vehicle routing systems to optimize the route distance. However, in real-life scenario such as transportation problem does not seem similar as pictured in OTSP whereby do not all cities are required to be visited but simply restrain to several number of n cities. Therefore, a new problem called n­Cities Open Loop Travelling Salesman Problem (nOTSP) is proposed. In the past, Genetic Algorithm (GA) is a popular algorithm that used to solve TSPs. However, GA often suffers from premature convergence due to the difficulty in preventing the loss of genetic diversity in the population. Therefore, Genetic Simplified Swarm Algorithm (GSSA) is proposed in this srudy to overcome the drawback of GA. GSSA is an improved GA based algorithm with Simplified Swarm Optimization (SSO) algorithm's characteristic named Solution Update Mechanism (SUM). The SUM is modified by embedding three GA mutation operators. Then, GSSA is used to optimize nOTSP in terms of finding the shortest tour. Later, the performance of GSSA is compared with GA without crossover operator (GA-XX) and GA with one­point crossover operator (GA-IX). Performance of the proposed algorithm is measured based on the shortest distance and average shortest distance found by the algorithm. Meanwhile, an investigation on influence of population size towards algorithm was also studied. The experiment results show that GSSA can discover shorter tour than GA-XX and GA-IX. Nevertheless, the study also found that most of the good solutions are discovered in the larger population sizes from 3000 to 5000.
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spelling uthm.eprints-99432023-09-13T07:31:26Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9943/ A genetic simplified swarm algorithm for optimizing n-cities open loop travelling salesman problem Chieng, Hock Hung QA Mathematics QA299.6-433 Analysis Open Loop Travelling Salesman Problem (OTSP) is one of the extension of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) that finding a shortest tour of a number of cities by visiting each city exactly once and do not rerurning to the starting city. In the past, TSP and OTSP has been applied in various vehicle routing systems to optimize the route distance. However, in real-life scenario such as transportation problem does not seem similar as pictured in OTSP whereby do not all cities are required to be visited but simply restrain to several number of n cities. Therefore, a new problem called n­Cities Open Loop Travelling Salesman Problem (nOTSP) is proposed. In the past, Genetic Algorithm (GA) is a popular algorithm that used to solve TSPs. However, GA often suffers from premature convergence due to the difficulty in preventing the loss of genetic diversity in the population. Therefore, Genetic Simplified Swarm Algorithm (GSSA) is proposed in this srudy to overcome the drawback of GA. GSSA is an improved GA based algorithm with Simplified Swarm Optimization (SSO) algorithm's characteristic named Solution Update Mechanism (SUM). The SUM is modified by embedding three GA mutation operators. Then, GSSA is used to optimize nOTSP in terms of finding the shortest tour. Later, the performance of GSSA is compared with GA without crossover operator (GA-XX) and GA with one­point crossover operator (GA-IX). Performance of the proposed algorithm is measured based on the shortest distance and average shortest distance found by the algorithm. Meanwhile, an investigation on influence of population size towards algorithm was also studied. The experiment results show that GSSA can discover shorter tour than GA-XX and GA-IX. Nevertheless, the study also found that most of the good solutions are discovered in the larger population sizes from 3000 to 5000. 2016-01 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9943/2/24p%20CHIENG%20HOCK%20HUNG.pdf text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9943/1/CHIENG%20HOCK%20HUNG%20COPYRIGHT%20DECLARATION.pdf text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9943/3/CHIENG%20HOCK%20HUNG%20WATERMARK.pdf Chieng, Hock Hung (2016) A genetic simplified swarm algorithm for optimizing n-cities open loop travelling salesman problem. Masters thesis, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia.
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A genetic simplified swarm algorithm for optimizing n-cities open loop travelling salesman problem
title A genetic simplified swarm algorithm for optimizing n-cities open loop travelling salesman problem
title_full A genetic simplified swarm algorithm for optimizing n-cities open loop travelling salesman problem
title_fullStr A genetic simplified swarm algorithm for optimizing n-cities open loop travelling salesman problem
title_full_unstemmed A genetic simplified swarm algorithm for optimizing n-cities open loop travelling salesman problem
title_short A genetic simplified swarm algorithm for optimizing n-cities open loop travelling salesman problem
title_sort genetic simplified swarm algorithm for optimizing n cities open loop travelling salesman problem
topic QA Mathematics
QA299.6-433 Analysis
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