culebra.trainer.aco.abc module

Abstract base classes for the ACO-based trainers.

This module provides several abstract classes for different kind of Ant Colony Optimization based trainers.

• Basic base classes:

  • SingleColACO: Base class for all the single colony ACO-based trainers

  • ElitistACO Support for elitist single colony ACO-based trainers

  • SingleObjACO: A base class for all the single colony ACO-based trainers which optimize only a single objective

• With respect to the pheromone updating procedure:

  • Approaches relying on pheromone evaporation:

    • PheromoneBasedACO: A base class for all pheromone-based single objective ACO trainers

    • ReseteablePheromoneBasedACO: A base class for all the elitist, pheromone-based, and reseteable single colony ACO trainers

  • Population-based approaches:

    • MaxPheromonePACO: A base class for all the population-based single colony ACO trainers using a maximum pheromone amount

    • PACO: A base class for all the population-based single colony ACO trainers

    • SingleObjPACO: A base class for all the population-based single colony and single objective ACO trainers

• Finally, regarding the kind of problem:

  • ACOFS: A base class for all the ACO-based approaches for FS

  • ACOTSP: A base class for all the ACO-based approaches for TSP