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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...
ICDE
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Although the ant metaphor has been successfully applied to routing of data packets both in wireless and fixed networks, little is yet known about its applicability to the task of...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
We address the problem of optimizing the distribution of partially replicated databases over a computer network. Replication is used to increase data availability in the presence ...
INFORMATICASI
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ASIAN
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1999
Springer
Abstract. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a paradigm that employs a set of cooperating agents to solve functions or obtain good solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. ...