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A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for the Multicast Routing Problem

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In this paper, a new algorithm for the solution of the Multicast Routing Problem based on Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm is presented and analyzed. A review of the most important evolutionary optimization algorithms for the solution of this problem is also given. Three different versions of the proposed algorithm are given and their quality is evaluated with experiments conducted on suitably modified benchmark instances of the Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem from the TSP library. The results indicated the efficiency of the proposed method.

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Marinakis, Y., Migdalas, A. (2014). A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for the Multicast Routing Problem. In: Batsyn, M., Kalyagin, V., Pardalos, P. (eds) Models, Algorithms and Technologies for Network Analysis. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 104. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09758-9_7

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