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GECCO
2003
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
AntClust: Ant Clustering and Web Usage Mining
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a new ant-based clustering algorithm called AntClust. It is inspired from the chemical recognition system of ants. In this system, the continuou...
Nicolas Labroche, Nicolas Monmarché, Gilles...
CEC
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Performance of aggregation pheromone system on unimodal and multimodal problems
This paper describes and analyzes the aggregation pheromone system (APS) algorithm, which extends ant colony optimization (ACO) to continuous domains. APS uses the collective behav...
Shigeyoshi Tsutsui, Martin Pelikan, Ashish Ghosh
IPPS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Ant stigmergy on the grid: optimizing the cooling process in continuous steel casting
The paper presents a new distributed metaheuristic algorithm in an optimal control problem related to the cooling process in the continuous casting of steel. The optimization task...
Peter Korosec, Jurij Silc, Bogdan Filipic, Erkki L...
GECCO
2008
Springer
182views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Scaling ant colony optimization with hierarchical reinforcement learning partitioning
This paper merges hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) with ant colony optimization (ACO) to produce a HRL ACO algorithm capable of generating solutions for large domains. Th...
Erik J. Dries, Gilbert L. Peterson