A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Software Project Scheduling

International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering

© 2016 by SSRG - IJCSE Journal

Volume 3 Issue 3

Year of Publication : 2016

Authors : S.Jagadeesan, S.Gayathri

10.14445/23488387/IJCSE-V3I3P106

How to Cite?

S.Jagadeesan, S.Gayathri, "A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Software Project Scheduling," SSRG International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering , vol. 3,  no. 3, pp. 27-37, 2016. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488387/IJCSE-V3I3P106

Abstract:

The extraction of comprehensible knowledge is one of the major challenges in many domains. In this concept, an ant programming (AP) framework, which is capable of mining classification rules easily comprehensible by humans, and, therefore, capable of supporting expert-domain decisions, is presented. The algorithm proposed, called grammar based ant programming (GBAP), is the first AP algorithm developed for the extraction of classification rules, and it is guided by a context-free grammar that ensures the creation of new valid individuals. To compute the transition probability of each available movement, this new model introduces the use of two complementary heuristic functions, instead of just one, as typical ant-based algorithms do. The selection of a consequent for each rule mined and the selection of the rules that make up the classifier are based on the use of a niching approach. The performance of GBAP is compared against other classification techniques on 18 varied data sets. Experimental results show that our approach produces comprehensible rules and competitive or better accuracy values than those achieved by the other classification algorithms compared with it.

Keywords:

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Ant Programming (AP), classification, Data Mining (DM), Grammar-Based Automatic Programming (GBAP).

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