TY - JOUR T1 - Comparison Between Ant Colony and Genetic Algorithm Using Traveling Salesman Problem AU - Abduljabbar, Zaid Ameen AU - , Mustafa S. Khalefa AU - , Marzanah A. Jabar JO - International Journal of Soft Computing VL - 8 IS - 3 SP - 171 EP - 174 PY - 2013 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-9503 DO - ijscomp.2013.171.174 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijscomp.2013.171.174 KW - Ant colony KW -genetic algorithm KW -combinatorial optimization KW -traveling salesman problem KW -distributed algorithm AB - The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a complex problem in combinatorial optimization. The aim of this study is compare the effect of using two distributed algorithm which are ant colony as a Swarm intelligence algorithm and genetic algorithm. In ant colony algorithm each individual ant constructs a part of the solution using an artificial pheromone which reflects its experience accumulated while solving the problem and heuristic information dependent on the problem. The results of comparison show that ant colony is high efficient than genetic algorithm and it requires less computational cost and generally only a few lines of code. ER -