ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: The traditional ant colony optimization has the defect of the stagnation during last runs and trapping in local optimal solution. Combining of the characteristics of the optimal generation of cascade reservoir, the chaos ant colony optimization has been proposed basing on increasing the field search mechanisms of the algorithm and using of advantages of ergodicity in chaos algorithm. The ant colony algorithm parameters have been verified in the paper. A practical example calculation shows that the results of the algorithm is rational and reliable when it is used to solve the problem of optimal operation of cascade reservoirs, so a new way for searching the solution to the optimal operation of cascade reservoirs with high dimension and complexity is provided.
