Solving the Traveling Salesman’s Problem Using the African Buffalo Optimization

Table 2

Experimental parameters.

ABO		ACO		ABC		HA		CGAS
Parameter	Values	Parameters	Values	Parameters	Values	Parameters	Values	Parameter	Values
Population	40	Ants		Population		Population		Generation	100
	1.0	β	5.0	ϕij	rand(−1, 1)	β	5.0	β	2.0
max/max	0.6	ρ	0.65	ωij	rand(0, 1.5)	ρ	0.65	ρ	0.1
	0.5	α	1.0	SN	NP/2	α	1.0		0.33
	1.0	Ǫ	200	Limit		ϕij	rand(−1, 1)	Crossover rate	1.0
N/A	—	qo	0.9	Max cycle number	500	ωij	rand(0, 1.5)	qo	0.9
N/A	—	N/A	—	Colony	50	SN	NP/2	ϕ	0.3
N/A	—	N/A	—	N/A	—	Limit		ϕρ	0.2
N/A	—	N/A	—	N/A	—	Max cycle number	500
N/A	—	N/A	—	N/A	—	Colony	50
N/A	—	N/A	—	N/A	—	Ǫ	200	N/A	—
N/A	—	N/A	—	N/A	—	qo	0.9	N/A	—
Total number of runs	50		50		50		50		50