An Island Model Based Ant System with Lookahead for the Shortest Supersequence Problem

In this paper we introduce an Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) algorithm for the Shortest Common Supersequence (SCS) problem, which has applications in production system planning, mechanical engineering and molecular biology. The ACO algorithm is used to find good parameters for a heuristic for the SCS problem. An island model with several populations of ants is used for the ACO algorithm. Besides we introduce a lookahead function which makes the decisions of the ants dependent on the state arrived after the decision.

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