Ant colony ATTA clustering algorithm of rock mass structural plane in groups

Based on structural surface normal vector spherical distance and the pole stereographic projection Euclidean distance,two distance functions were established.The cluster analysis of structure surface was conducted by the use of ATTA clustering methods based on ant colony piles,and Silhouette index was introduced to evaluate the clustering effect.The clustering analysis of the measured data of Sanshandao Gold Mine shows that ant colony ATTA-based clustering method does better than K-mean clustering analysis.Meanwhile,clustering results of ATTA method based on pole Euclidean distance and ATTA method based on normal vector spherical distance have a great consistence.The clustering results are most close to the pole isopycnic graph.It can efficiently realize grouping of structural plane and determination of the dominant structural surface direction.It is made up for the defects of subjectivity and inaccuracy in icon measurement approach and has great engineering value.

Color image segmentation using mean shift and improved ant clustering

To improve the segmentation quality and efficiency of color image,a novel approach which combines the advantages of the mean shift(MS) segmentation and improved ant clustering method is proposed.The regions which can preserve the discontinuity characteristics of an image are segmented by MS algorithm,and then they are represented by a graph in which every region is represented by a node.In order to solve the graph partition problem,an improved ant clustering algorithm,called similarity carrying ant model(SCAM-ant),is proposed,in which a new similarity calculation method is given.Using SCAM-ant,the maximum number of items that each ant can carry will increase,the clustering time will be effectively reduced,and globally optimized clustering can also be realized.Because the graph is not based on the pixels of original image but on the segmentation result of MS algorithm,the computational complexity is greatly reduced.Experiments show that the proposed method can realize color image segmentation efficiently,and compared with the conventional methods based on the image pixels,it improves the image segmentation quality and the anti-interference ability.

Spatial quality evaluation for drinking water based on GIS and ant colony clustering algorithm

To develop a better approach for spatial evaluation of drinking water quality, an intelligent evaluation method integrating a geographical information system(GIS) and an ant colony clustering algorithm(ACCA) was used. Drinking water samples from 29 wells in Zhenping County, China, were collected and analyzed. 35 parameters on water quality were selected, such as chloride concentration, sulphate concentration, total hardness, nitrate concentration, fluoride concentration, turbidity, pH, chromium concentration, COD, bacterium amount, total coliforms and color. The best spatial interpolation methods for the 35 parameters were found and selected from all types of interpolation methods in GIS environment according to the minimum cross-validation errors. The ACCA was improved through three strategies, namely mixed distance function, average similitude degree and probability conversion functions. Then, the ACCA was carried out to obtain different water quality grades in the GIS environment. In the end, the result from the ACCA was compared with those from the competitive Hopfield neural network(CHNN) to validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the ACCA according to three evaluation indexes, which are stochastic sampling method, pixel amount and convergence speed. It is shown that the spatial water quality grades obtained from the ACCA were more effective, accurate and intelligent than those obtained from the CHNN.

Bio-Inspired Intelligent Routing in WSN: Integrating Mayfly Optimization and Enhanced Ant Colony Optimization for Energy-Efficient Cluster Formation and Maintenance

Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs)are a collection of sensor nodes distributed in space and connected through wireless communication.The sensor nodes gather and store data about the real world around them.However,the nodes that are dependent on batteries will ultimately suffer an energy loss with time,which affects the lifetime of the network.This research proposes to achieve its primary goal by reducing energy consumption and increasing the network’s lifetime and stability.The present technique employs the hybrid Mayfly Optimization Algorithm-Enhanced Ant Colony Optimization(MFOA-EACO),where the Mayfly Optimization Algorithm(MFOA)is used to select the best cluster head(CH)from a set of nodes,and the Enhanced Ant Colony Optimization(EACO)technique is used to determine an optimal route between the cluster head and base station.The performance evaluation of our suggested hybrid approach is based on many parameters,including the number of active and dead nodes,node degree,distance,and energy usage.Our objective is to integrate MFOA-EACO to enhance energy efficiency and extend the network life of the WSN in the future.The proposed method outcomes proved to be better than traditional approaches such as Hybrid Squirrel-Flying Fox Optimization Algorithm(HSFLBOA),Hybrid Social Reindeer Optimization and Differential Evolution-Firefly Algorithm(HSRODE-FFA),Social Spider Distance Sensitive-Iterative Antlion Butterfly Cockroach Algorithm(SADSS-IABCA),and Energy Efficient Clustering Hierarchy Strategy-Improved Social Spider Algorithm Differential Evolution(EECHS-ISSADE).

Hybridization of Fuzzy and Hard Semi-Supervised Clustering Algorithms Tuned with Ant Lion Optimizer Applied to Higgs Boson Search

This paper focuses on the unsupervised detection of the Higgs boson particle using the most informative features and variables which characterize the“Higgs machine learning challenge 2014”data set.This unsupervised detection goes in this paper analysis through 4 steps:(1)selection of the most informative features from the considered data;(2)definition of the number of clusters based on the elbow criterion.The experimental results showed that the optimal number of clusters that group the considered data in an unsupervised manner corresponds to 2 clusters;(3)proposition of a new approach for hybridization of both hard and fuzzy clustering tuned with Ant Lion Optimization(ALO);(4)comparison with some existing metaheuristic optimizations such as Genetic Algorithm(GA)and Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO).By employing a multi-angle analysis based on the cluster validation indices,the confusion matrix,the efficiencies and purities rates,the average cost variation,the computational time and the Sammon mapping visualization,the results highlight the effectiveness of the improved Gustafson-Kessel algorithm optimized withALO(ALOGK)to validate the proposed approach.Even if the paper gives a complete clustering analysis,its novel contribution concerns only the Steps(1)and(3)considered above.The first contribution lies in the method used for Step(1)to select the most informative features and variables.We used the t-Statistic technique to rank them.Afterwards,a feature mapping is applied using Self-Organizing Map(SOM)to identify the level of correlation between them.Then,Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO),a metaheuristic optimization technique,is used to reduce the data set dimension.The second contribution of thiswork concern the third step,where each one of the clustering algorithms as K-means(KM),Global K-means(GlobalKM),Partitioning AroundMedoids(PAM),Fuzzy C-means(FCM),Gustafson-Kessel(GK)and Gath-Geva(GG)is optimized and tuned with ALO.

Incremental Web Usage Mining Based on Active Ant Colony Clustering

To alleviate the scalability problem caused by the increasing Web using and changing users＇ interests, this paper presents a novel Web Usage Mining algorithm-Incremental Web Usage Mining algorithm based on Active Ant Colony Clustering. Firstly, an active movement strategy about direction selection and speed, different with the positive strategy employed by other Ant Colony Clustering algorithms, is proposed to construct an Active Ant Colony Clustering algorithm, which avoid the idle and ＂flying over the plane＂ moving phenomenon, effectively improve the quality and speed of clustering on large dataset. Then a mechanism of decomposing clusters based on above methods is introduced to form new clusters when users＇ interests change. Empirical studies on a real Web dataset show the active ant colony clustering algorithm has better performance than the previous algorithms, and the incremental approach based on the proposed mechanism can efficiently implement incremental Web usage mining.

Categorizing HIV-1 subtypes using an ant-based clustering algorithm

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is especially difficult to treat due to its rapid mutation rate. There are currently eleven different genomic subtypes of HIV-1, as well as a number of recombinant subtypes. An area of study in bioinformatics is the development of algorithms to identify the subtypes of HIV-1 genomes. Ant-based algorithms have the ability to find global solutions in optimizations problems, and are also able to process complex data efficiently. We proposed a new technique named Ant Colony Anchor Algorithm (ACAA), using anchors of training data on a topographic map to categorize HIV-1 sequences based on ant-based clustering. We used three sets of sequences from the POL region of the HIV-1 genome. We categorized these three dataset with the Subtype Analyzer (STAR), a current HIV-1 categorization algorithm, and the ACAA. We found that the ACAA returned higher accuracy values of 83.2%, 67.1%, and 53.5% for our three datasets respectively, than the STAR’s 47.3%, 49.4% and 18%. The results of the ACAA are the average results of 20 runs of the algorithm. We also observed the performance of the algorithm on specific subtypes, and observed that while the STAR and ACAA performed with similar accuracy on several subtypes (A, B, and C in particular), the ACAA had a significant advantage over the STAR in others, especially in categorizing recombinant subtypes.

An Improved Heuristic Ant-Clustering Algorithm

An improved heuristic ant-clustering algorithm(HAC)is presented in this paper.A device of ’memory bank’ is proposed,which can bring forth heuristic knowledge guiding ant to move in the bi-dimension grid space.The device lowers the randomness of ants’ moving and avoids the producing of"un-assigned data object".We have made some experiments on real data sets and synthetic data sets.The results demonstrate that HAC has superiority in misclassification error rate and runtime over the classical algorithm.

Analysis on the Human Errors in Coal Mines based on Ant Clustering Algorithm

The human error mechanism in coal mine safety is analyzed specifically from safety psychological and physiological factors, worker＇ s quality, safety management, safety education, mechanical equipment, and working environment, and also a human error＇ dominant factors classification model playing a great effect on the safety production of coal mine is established with the application of ant clustering algorithm. The experimental results show that management is the key in the human errors of coal mine.

一种基于序列相似性的蚁群聚类算法SeqAntCluster

将序列数据的相似度度量方法S3M引入蚁群聚类算法中,提出一种基于序列相似性的蚁群聚类算法。该算法既继承了蚁群聚类算法原有的优点,又能有效地对序列数据聚类,更适合处理序列数据。

Optimizing Inter Cluster Ant Colony Optimization Data Aggregation Algorithm with Rendezvous Nodes and Mobile Sink

Energy conservation is becoming the main critical issue in wireless sensor network and also the main research area for most of the researchers. For improving the energy efficiency, sink mobility is used with constrain path in wireless sensor network. In order to solve these optimization problems, inter cluster Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm (ACO) is used with mobile sink (MS) and rendezvous nodes (RN). The proposed algorithm will improve 30% more network lifetime than the existing algorithm and prompts high accurate delivery of packets in highly dense network.

Hybrid Clustering Algorithms with GRASP to Construct an Initial Solution for the MVPPDP

Mobile commerce(m-commerce)contributes to increasing the popularity of electronic commerce(e-commerce),allowing anybody to sell or buy goods using a mobile device or tablet anywhere and at any time.As demand for e-commerce increases tremendously,the pressure on delivery companies increases to organise their transportation plans to achieve profits and customer satisfaction.One important planning problem in this domain is the multi-vehicle profitable pickup and delivery problem(MVPPDP),where a selected set of pickup and delivery customers need to be served within certain allowed trip time.In this paper,we proposed hybrid clustering algorithms with the greedy randomised adaptive search procedure(GRASP)to construct an initial solution for the MVPPDP.Our approaches first cluster the search space in order to reduce its dimensionality,then use GRASP to build routes for each cluster.We compared our results with state-of-the-art construction heuristics that have been used to construct initial solutions to this problem.Experimental results show that our proposed algorithms contribute to achieving excellent performance in terms of both quality of solutions and processing time.

无线传感器网络中基于能量优化的路由协议ANT-LEACH

经典路由协议LEACH采用自适应分簇算法,簇头与基站直接通信,因此一旦二者距离较远,则这种单跳传输方式将消耗较多能量,并最终导致整个网络运行失效。提出一种改进的基于能量优化的路由协议ANT-LEACH,该协议将蚁群优化算法融入到簇头选路过程中,重点引入引力度函数概念对蚁群选择概率公式和信息素更新规则进行改进,充分考虑簇头节点的剩余能量,在簇头与基站之间找到一条能量最优路径,变单跳为多跳传输方式。仿真结果表明该协议有效地降低了节点能耗,延长了网络的生存时间,并保证了整个网络负载的平衡。

基于AntStream用户聚类的协同过滤推荐系统

系统规模的逐步扩大和用户兴趣的发展变化给传统协同过滤推荐系统带来了实时性减弱和准确性降低的问题。基于K-Means用户聚类的协同过滤技术虽然能在一定程度上解决这两个问题,算法本身却带有局部最优的缺陷。在保证实时性的前提下,为克服K-Means算法的缺陷,提出使用AntClass蚁群算法对用户聚类。同时提出将用户评分看作数据流,利用金字塔时间框架预处理数据,从而体现用户兴趣随时间的变化。于是,将AntClass蚁群算法和利用金字塔时间框架预处理过的数据流相结合,最终形成文中的AntStream算法。实验表明,AntStream算法不仅改善了传统协同过滤推荐系统的实时性问题,而且更大程度提高了推荐质量。

C-means-based ant colony algorithm for TSP

To solve the traveling salesman problem with the characteristics of clustering,a novel hybrid algorithm,the ant colony algorithm combined with the C-means algorithm,is presented.In order to improve the speed of convergence,the traveling salesman problem(TSP)data is specially clustered by the C-means algorithm,then,the result is processed by the ant colony algorithm to solve the problem.The proposed algorithm treats the C-means algorithm as a new search operator and adopts a kind of local searching strategy—2-opt,so as to improve the searching performance.Given the cluster number,the algorithm can obtain the preferable solving result.Compared with the three other algorithms—the ant colony algorithm,the genetic algorithm and the simulated annealing algorithm,the proposed algorithm can make the results converge to the global optimum faster and it has higher accuracy.The algorithm can also be extended to solve other correlative clustering combination optimization problems.Experimental results indicate the validity of the proposed algorithm.

基于Ant-Tree算法的短文本聚类研究

短文本由于词频过低,使用常规的聚类算法如K-means效果不理想,难得到可接受的准确度。而最近结合使用生物启发及聚类内部有效性测量改进的方法,能够有效改善短文本的聚类效果。针对短文本聚类,提出了改进Ant-Tree的算法。该算法引入了轮廓系数作为内部效度测量,对K-means算法获得的初始聚类划分计算轮廓系数值,根据各聚簇样本值大小排序,将排序结果应用于Ant-Tree算法的初始化步骤中,使Ant-Tree算法性能得到提高。实验结果表明,该算法准确度超过了其它的算法。

考虑动态需求的生鲜商品物流配送优化方法研究

目的针对生鲜商品配送过程中客户需求的变化,协调静态与动态客户需求之间的关系,合理规划路径,并降低物流总成本。方法首先考虑客户生鲜需求的多样化温控区间、随机订单请求时间及动态需求量等因素,构建物流总成本最小化的整数规划模型。然后,设计基于高斯混合聚类的改进蚁群算法求解该模型,并提出动态需求处理策略,用于路径的再优化。其次,通过与粒子群算法、遗传算法和鲸鱼优化算法进行对比分析,验证文中设计算法的有效性。最后,以重庆市某生鲜配送网络为例,对比分析优化前后的运营指标,并探讨生鲜商品价值损失水平与物流总成本之间的关系。结果经优化后,物流总成本下降了22.35%,其中惩罚成本、价值损失、配送成本和温控成本分别下降了39.84%、61.84%、29.80%、57.00%。结论文中所提的模型、算法和动态需求处理策略可以合理规划配送路径,有效降低了总成本,为考虑动态需求的生鲜配送网络优化提供了参考。

基于扇形链路策略的改进蚁群分簇路由协议

针对网络覆盖区域较大、节点数量较多的无线传感器网络,容易出现部分节点过早死亡等情况,提出一种基于扇形链路策略的改进蚁群分簇路由协议RACO-SL。通过加入奖惩因子,同时对精英个体采用蚁群优化算法的概率生成新的后代个体,对于普通个体,通过与随机选择的精英个体进行交叉变异操作,改进蚁群优化算法,以整个网络每次通信的能耗为优化目标选取较优的簇头节点集。为待转发簇头节点设计从可动态调节的扇形区域中选择下一跳中继节点的链路转发策略。实验结果表明,与现有协议相比,该协议在延长网络寿命、提高通信链路质量、增强网络覆盖度方面表现良好。

基于蚁群算法的三支k-means聚类算法

在聚类分析中,三支k-means聚类算法较具有较强的处理边界不确定数据的能力,但仍然存在对初始聚类中心敏感的问题.通过将蚁群算法和三支k-means聚类算法相结合,给出了一种基于蚁群算法的三支k-means聚类算法来解决这一问题.利用蚁群算法中随机概率选择策略和信息素的正负反馈机制,动态调整权重的方法,对三支k-means聚类算法进行优化.在UCI数据集上实验证明,该方法对聚类结果的性能指标有所提高.