Strategies for the increased robustness of ant-based clustering

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2977, Issue , 2004, Pages 90-104

  Handl, Julia ^a   Knowles, Joshua ^a   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SET THEORY; STATISTICS;

FREE GRIDS; ORDINARY CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER SETTINGS; SHORT-TERM MEMORY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 23144460461     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24701-2_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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