ACO
Canonical SVM Kernel Function-based Classification Algorithm
Figure 4.2
This flowchart appears to depict the process of an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm for
management scheduling. Here’s a breakdown of the key steps:
Initialize: The algorithm begins with an initialization step.
Iteration Loop (its = 1 to w): The outer loop runs for w iterations, which is the number of total
iterations defined.
Ant Loop (ant = 1 to b): For each iteration, another loop is executed for b ants (agents in ACO
terms), which explore possible solutions.
Construct Trial Management Schedule: Each ant constructs a candidate (trial) solution, which is
a possible management schedule in this context.
Calculate Objective Function: The performance of the trial schedule is evaluated using an
objective function, which measures how good the solution is (for example, based on some cost or
efficiency metric).
Ant Update:
If the current ant is less than b, move to the next ant.
Otherwise, update the pheromone values (used to guide the search in future iterations) based on the
current best solution.
Iteration Update: If the current iteration is less than w, proceed to the next iteration.
Final Schedule: Once all iterations are completed, the best management schedule is selected as the final
solution.
The algorithm uses pheromone updates to improve the exploration of the solution space, as is typical
with Ant Colony Optimization, encouraging future ants to follow paths that have led to good solutions in
the past.
Manhattan k-means
D_Xd would then represent the subset of the dataset that only contains those 'n' selected attributes for
all the data points.
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