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IPPS
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Parallel Ant Colonies for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Abstract. Ant Colonies AC optimization take inspiration from the behavior of real ant colonies to solve optimization problems. This paper presents a parallel model for ant colonies...
El-Ghazali Talbi, Olivier Roux, Cyril Fonlupt, Den...
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Understanding the Pheromone System Within Ant Colony Optimization
Abstract. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a collection of metaheuristics inspired by foraging in ant colonies, whose aim is to solve combinatorial optimization problems. We identi...
Stephen Gilmour, Mark Dras
PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Variable Neighborhood Search and Ant Colony Optimization for the Rooted Delay-Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem
Abstract. The rooted delay-constrained minimum spanning tree problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem arising for example in the design of centralized broadcasting ...
Mario Ruthmair, Günther R. Raidl
SAGA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Two Metaheuristics for Multiobjective Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization
Two general-purpose metaheuristic algorithms for solving multiobjective stochastic combinatorial optimization problems are introduced: SP-ACO (based on the Ant Colony Optimization ...
Walter J. Gutjahr
SWARM
2012
SPRINGER
329views Optimization» more  SWARM 2012»
12 years 2 days ago
A critical analysis of parameter adaptation in ant colony optimization
Applying parameter adaptation means operating on parameters of an algorithm while it is tackling an instance. For ant colony optimization, several parameter adaptation methods have...
Paola Pellegrini, Thomas Stützle, Mauro Birat...