• AMENDMENT IN THE CONCEPT OF PHEROMONE EVAPORATION–AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH IN ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION

Abstract

In this paper, a new concept is introduced in the field of pheromone evaporation for Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). Traditionally ACO is applicable over Single Criterion Decision Making problems (SCDM), and evaporation parameter is a unique value that is associated within an iteration of this method. But in this paper, we are going to enhance the concept of evaporation parameter, by considering the optimization problem as Multi Criteria Decision Making problem (MCDM). This enhancement will lead us towards a different pheromone evaporation technique, and it will definitely affect the convergence of the solution for combinatorial problems.