Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem

BioSystems

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 73-81

  Dorigo, Marco ^a   Gambardella, Luca Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive behavior; Ant colony optimization; Artificial life; Combinatorial optimization; Computational intelligence; Reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANT COLONY; TRAVELLING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REINFORCEMENT; TRAVEL;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0030759617     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(97)01708-5     Document Type: Article

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