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ANTSW
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Molecular Structure Elucidation Using Ant Colony Optimization: A Preliminary Study
Abstract. Identifying the structure of unknown molecules is an important activity in the pharmaceutical industry where it underpins the production of new drugs and the analysis of ...
Caroline Farrelly, Douglas B. Kell, Joshua D. Know...
FGCS
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
Ant algorithms and stigmergy
Ant colonies, and more generally social insect societies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organiz...
Marco Dorigo, Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz
CORR
2004
Springer
180views Education» more  CORR 2004»
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
GECCO
2007
Springer
183views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Screening the parameters affecting heuristic performance
This research screens the tuning parameters of a combinatorial optimization heuristic. Specifically, it presents a Design of Experiments (DOE) approach that uses a Fractional Fac...
Enda Ridge, Daniel Kudenko
AINA
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Partitioned optimization algorithms for multiple sequence alignment
Multiple sequence alignment is an important and difficult problem in molecular biology and bioinformatics. In this paper, we propose a partitioning approach that significantly impr...
Yixin Chen, Yi Pan, Juan Chen, Wei Liu, Ling Chen