Balancing Social Accounting Matrices with Artificial Polymorphus Ants

Rolando Gonzales Martínez

Computational Economics, 2016, vol. 47, issue 2, 179-191

Abstract: An artificial ant colony algorithm is proposed for balancing a social accounting matrix. The approach is based on the swarm behaviour of ants, which choose an optimal path between their colony and the source of food by leaving a trace of pheromones. In the algorithms, an improvement in the balance increases the pheromones, thus rising the probability of ants moving towards the equilibrium of the matrix. Polymorphism allows allocation and partitioning of the optimization task. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016

Keywords: Artificial ant colony optimization; Social accounting matrices; C61; C67 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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