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EOR
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Combining two pheromone structures for solving the car sequencing problem with Ant Colony Optimization
The car sequencing problem involves scheduling cars along an assembly line while satisfying capacity constraints. In this paper, we describe an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algor...
Christine Solnon
CEC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
DEACO: Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization with Differential Evolution
—Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is a novel meta-heuristic algorithm for the approximate solution of combinatorial optimization problems that has been inspired by the for...
Xiangyin Zhang, Haibin Duan, Jiqiang Jin
TEC
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Ant colony optimization for resource-constrained project scheduling
An ant colony optimization (ACO) approach for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is presented. Several new features that are interesting for ACO in general...
Daniel Merkle, Martin Middendorf, Hartmut Schmeck
ICANN
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Two Stage Clustering Method Combining Self-Organizing Maps and Ant K-Means
This paper proposes a clustering method SOMAK, which is composed by Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) followed by the Ant K-means (AK) algorithm. The aim of this method is not to find an...
Jefferson R. Souza, Teresa Bernarda Ludermir, Lean...
CORR
2004
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Self-Organized Stigmergic Document Maps: Environment as a Mechanism for Context Learning
Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
Vitorino Ramos, Juan J. Merelo Guervós