Abstract: In this paper, we evaluate the usefulness of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) in tackling combinatorial optimization issues, focusing mainly on the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). We present ...

Abstract: The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) asks for the shortest tour that visits each city once and returns to the start. It is a classic NP-hard problem and a benchmark for optimization, ...

After a comparatively upbeat first three nights of the Stratford Festival’s Opening Week, there was a palpable tone shift with the opening of Dean Gabourie’s excellent, but devastating production of ...