A hybrid ant colony optimization approach for finite element mesh decomposition

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 307-316

  Bahreininejad, A ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Finite elements; Greedy algorithm; Mesh decomposition; Neural networks; Subdomain generation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; MESH DECOMPOSITION; SUBDOMAIN GENERATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 10644233987     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-004-0432-x     Document Type: Article

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