TSP Solution Based on the Ant Colony Algorithm

Traveling salesman problem, a very famous NP-hard problem, has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. People focus on how to quickly get the optimal solution. In this paper, we first give the basic description of TSP, and then introduce the main idea and mechanisms of ant colony algorithm in detail. After that, the paper makes a further discussion on the steps and principles of the application in TSP. Finally, to illustrate it more clearly, a program based on the ant colony algorithm has been implemented. Through the experiments and the result graphics, it is clearly showed that this algorithm can effectively complete the search process and has a good performance in solving this problem.