Reliability-Based Design Optimization for Crane Metallic Structure Using ACO and AFOSM Based on China Standards

Table 4

Parameter values used in adopted ACO.

Parameters	Values for the example
Fitness function parameters	, ,
Number of ants	Popsize = 40
Maximum number of iterations	mgen = 500
Fixed nonevolution generation	sgen = 5 or 10
Pheromone updating rule parameter	,
Selection probability parameters
Phase constants	= 2, = 0, = 1
Transition rule parameter	= 0.9