Multi-agent cooperation using the Ant Algorithm with variable pheromone placement

2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE CEC 2005. Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1232-1237

  Borzello, Eric ^a   Merkle, Laurence D ^a  

^a ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant algorithm; Cooperation; Multi agent system; Variable pheromone placement

Indexed keywords

ANT ALGORITHMS; ANT COLONIES; MULTI-AGENT PROBLEMS; PHEROMONE PLACEMENT;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 27144438532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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