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Ant colony optimization with multi-agent evolution for detecting functional modules in protein-protein interaction networks

  • Junzhong Ji
  • , Zhijun Liu
  • , Aidong Zhang
  • , Lang Jiao
  • , Chunnian Liu
  • Beijing University of Technology

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Abstract

Functional module identification in a Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) network is one of the most important and challenging tasks in computational biology. For detecting functional modules, it is difficult to solve the problem directly and always results in a low accuracy and a large discard rate. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm of ant colony optimization with multi-agent evolution for detecting functional modules. The proposed ACO-MAE algorithm enhances the performance of ant colony optimization (ACO) by incorporating multi-agent evolution (MAE). First, the ant colony optimization for solving Traveling Salesman Problems (TSP) is conducted to construct primary clustering results. Then, the multi-agent evolutionary process is performed to move out of local optima. From simulation results, it is shown that the proposed ACO-MAE algorithm has superior performance when compared to other existing algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Computing and Applications - Third International Conference, ICICA 2012, Proceedings
Pages445-453
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event3rd International Conference on Information Computing and Applications, ICICA 2012 - Chengde, China
Duration: Sep 14 2012Sep 16 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7473 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Information Computing and Applications, ICICA 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengde
Period09/14/1209/16/12

Keywords

  • Ant Colony Optimization
  • Functional Module Detection
  • Multi-agent Evolution
  • Protein-Protein Interaction Network

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