Cooperative distributed search: The ants' way

Control and Cybernetics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 413-441

  Wodrich, Mark ^a   Bilchev, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimisation; Evolutionary computation; Hybrid genetic algorithms; Stochastic optimisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031508899     PISSN: 03248569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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