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(elitest ants) Below optimal value increasing it results in discovery of better tours and/or the best tour being discovered earlier. Above it, the elitest ants force exploration around suboptimal tours in the early phase of search with resulting inferior performance.
For Oliver30, ne = 8 was optimal (in terms of time) although the range 2-16 could be tolerated.
