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ANOR
2004
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13 years 10 months ago
Model-Based Search for Combinatorial Optimization: A Critical Survey
In this paper we introduce model-based search as a unifying framework accommodating some recently proposed metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization such as ant colony optimiza...
Mark Zlochin, Mauro Birattari, Nicolas Meuleau, Ma...
CORR
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 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
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Web Page Classification with an Ant Colony Algorithm
This paper utilizes Ant-Miner – the first Ant Colony algorithm for discovering classification rules – in the field of web content mining, and shows that it is more effective th...
Nicholas Holden, Alex Alves Freitas
ICML
1995
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Ant-Q: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem
In this paper we introduce Ant-Q, a family of algorithms which present many similarities with Q-learning (Watkins, 1989), and which we apply to the solution of symmetric and asymm...
Luca Maria Gambardella, Marco Dorigo
PPSN
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Ant Colonies for Adaptive Routing in Packet-Switched Communications Networks
In this paper we present AntNet, a novel adaptive approach to routing tables learning in packet-switched communications networks. AntNet is inspired by the stigmergy model of commu...
Gianni Di Caro, Marco Dorigo