An improved ant colony optimization with an automatic updating mechanism for constraint satisfaction problems

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Highlights：

• The paper proposes an improved ant colony optimization.

• An automatic updating mechanism is incorporated into the proposed algorithm.

• The proposed algorithm can solve constraint satisfaction problems efficiently.

摘要

•The paper proposes an improved ant colony optimization.•An automatic updating mechanism is incorporated into the proposed algorithm.•The proposed algorithm can solve constraint satisfaction problems efficiently.

论文关键词：Ant colony optimization,Automatic updating mechanism,Constraint satisfaction problem,Evolutionary algorithms

论文评审过程：Received 3 June 2019, Revised 30 May 2020, Accepted 14 September 2020, Available online 19 September 2020, Version of Record 1 October 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114021