Binary ant colony optimization applied to variable screening in the Mahalanobis-Taguchi System

This work presents the application of the Mahalanobis-Taguchi System (MTS) to a dimensional problem in the automotive industry. The combinatorial optimization problem of variable selection is solved by the application of a recent version of binary ant colony optimization algorithm. Moreover, a comparison with respect to binary particle swarm optimization algorithm is also presented and a discussion regarding the numerical results is given. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.