The rapid growth of international container handling in recent years has led to an increased
utilization of mega-containerships and the rebuild of container network. In this paper, we …

This paper describes the improved chaotic ant colony algorithm (CACA) for the preliminary
ship design. An optimization model for ship design has been identified as a problem with …

This paper applies the up-to-date intelligent simulation ant colony algorithm to dynamic
container truck scheduling. It proposes to take in real-time traffic information through GPS …

A hybrid ant colony optimization based on Genetic Algorithm (GA) is applied to solving
complex packing problem in the paper. Firstly, it searches for a set of rough solutions with …

The ant colony algorithm (ACA) has been successfully applied to several combinatorial
optimization problems, but it has some shortcomings such as its slow computing speed, and …

As a new type of intelligent offshore operation equipment, unmanned ship is gradually
becoming a research hotspot at home and abroad. Path planning technology is one of the …

Ship pipe route design (SPRD) is an area, which requires experienced experts because of
its complexity and the large search space involved. It is one of the stages of ship design that …

In order to improve the solving performance of ant colony optimization (ACO), first the ACO
method dealing with continuous variables is analyzed and mapping rules for two types of …

Recently, the application of Ant Colony Optimization is much wider and it is always the
highlight of key algorithm. There are also many improvements about the ACO algorithm …

In order to overcome the easily-occurred precocious defects in solving complex
combinatorial optimization problems with the basic ant colony algorithm, an improved ant …