This is a simple console implementation of the Ant Colony System algorithm by Dorigo & Gambardella as described in: Dorigo, Marco, and Luca Maria Gambardella. "Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem." IEEE Transactions on evolutionary computation 1.1 (1997): 53-66.

It is written in C# (build with .NET Core 2.0)

Create TSP directory inside project folder and put there some .tsp file from TSPLIB repository.

By default it tries to load kroA100.tsp file. You can change load path in Program.cs file.

Default parameters (file Parameters.cs):

• Beta = 2
• Global Pheromone Evaporation Rate = 0.1
• Local Pheromone Evaporation Rate = 0.01
• Q0 = 0.9
• Ant Count = 20
• Iterations = 10000

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