A Performance Comparison of GA and ACO Applied to TSP

Abstract

This work presents a contribution to comparing two nature inspired metaheuristics for solving the TSP. We run ACO and GA on three benchmark instances with varying size and complexity, in addition to one real world application in the field of urban transportation and logistics. A first chapter presents algorithmic approaches. Results and discussion chapter outlines the computational behavior of the algorithms throughout the problem sets. The conclusion closes the discussion with recommendations and future scopes.