Decentralised multi-demic evolutionary approach to the dynamic multi-agent travelling salesman problem
Thomas Kent, Arthur Richards · Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion · 2019
This paper looks to use both centralised and decentralised implementations of Evolutionary Algorithms to solve a dynamic variant of the Multi-Agent Travelling Salesman Problem. The problem is allocating an active set of tasks to a set of agents whilst simultaneously planning the route for each agent. The allocation and routing are closely coupled parts of the same problem, this paper attempts to align the real world implementation demands of a decentralised solution by using multiple populations with well defined interactions to exploit the problem structure.