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ICEC
1996
13 years 6 months ago
1996
- In this paper we present ACS, a distributed algorithm for the solution of combinatorial optimization problems which was inspired by the observation of real colonies of ants. We a...
ANTSW
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
There are two reasons for parallelizing a metaheuristic if one is interested in performance: (i) given a fixed time to search, the aim is to increase the quality of the solutions f...
GECCO
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) has been applied successfully in solving the Traveling Salesman Problem. Marco Dorigo et al. used Ant System (AS) to explore the Symmetric Traveling S...
SWARM
2012
SPRINGER
12 years 14 days ago
2012
SPRINGER
Applying parameter adaptation means operating on parameters of an algorithm while it is tackling an instance. For ant colony optimization, several parameter adaptation methods have...
AEI
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
This research applies the meta-heuristic method of ant colony optimization (ACO) to an established set of vehicle routing problems (VRP). The procedure simulates the decision-maki...