Abstract A kind of Binary Ant Colony Algorithm is designed. Each ant stands at the former place to form onedimension linear queue for transferring the signal from one to another. While the signal passes each ant, the ant randomly chooses the state (0 or 1) according to its own pheromone. Owing to the adoption of the binary coding, the requirment for the behavior of every single ant is lower. So the corresponding memory is relatively less, which greatly improves the efficiency of the algorithm. The test function and the multi 0/1 Knapsack problem show that the proposed algorithm has better convergence speed and stability.
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