ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF ENHANCED ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION WITH THE TRADITIONAL ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION TO SOLVE TRAVELLING SALES PERSON PROBLEM

Ant Colony optimization is a heuristic technique which has been applied to a number of combinatorial optimization problem and is based on the foraging behavior of the ants. Travelling Salesperson problem is a combinatorial optimization problem which requires that each city should be visited once. In this research paper we use the K means clustering technique and Enhanced Ant Colony Optimization algorithm to solve the TSP problem. We show a comparison of the traditional approach with the proposed approach. The simulated results show that the proposed algorithm is better compared to the traditional approach.