Ants Colony Optimization Algorithm in the Hopfield Neural Network for Agricultural Soil Fertility Reverse Analysis

• Published in: Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics 2022-01, Vol.3 (1)
• Main Authors: Hamza Abubakar, Abdullahi Muhammad, Smaiala Bello
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Artificial Neural Networks, Hopfield Neural Network, Random 3-Satisfiability, Ants colony optimization, Logic Mining
• ISSN: 2958-0544; 2788-7421
• DOI: 10.52866/ijcsm.2022.01.01.004

The Boolean Satisfiability Problem (BSAT) is one of the most important decision problems in mathematical logic and computational sciences for determining whether or not a solution to a Boolean formula..  Hopfield neural network (HNN) is one of the major type artificial neural network (NN) popularly known for it used in solving various optimization and decision problems based on its energy minimization machinism.  The existing models that incorporate standalone network projected non-versatile framework as fundamental Hopfield type of neural network (HNN) employs random search in its training stages and sometimes get trapped at local optimal solution. In this study, Ants Colony Optimzation Algorithm (ACO) as a novel variant of probabilistic metaheuristic algorithm (MA) inspired by the behavior of real Ants,  has been incorporated in the training phase of Hopfield types of the neural network (HNN) to accelerate the training process for Random Boolean kSatisfiability reverse analysis (RANkSATRA) based for logic mining. The proposed hybrid model has been evaluated according to robustness and accuracy of the induced logic obtained based on the agricultural soil fertility data set (ASFDS). Based on the experimental simulation results, it reveals that the ACO can effectively work with the Hopfield type of neural network (HNN) for Random 3 Satisfiability Reverse Analysis with 87.5 % classification accuracy