Ant colony optimization theory: A survey

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 344, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 243-278

  Dorigo, Marco ^a   Blum, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Approximate algorithms; Combinatorial optimization; Convergence; Metaheuristics; Model based search; Stochastic gradient descent

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; APPROXIMATE ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; CONVERGENCE; METAHEURISTICS; MODEL-BASED SEARCH; STOCHASTIC GRADIENT DESCENT;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 27644543634     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2005.05.020     Document Type: Article

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