A modified ant colony optimization algorithm modeled on tabu-search methods

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1195-1198

  Ho, S L ^a   Yang, Shiyou ^b   Ni, Guangzheng ^b   Machado, Josè Márcio ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization (ACO); Design optimization; Foraging behavior; Tabu search method

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETISM; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); FORAGING BEHAVIOR; TABU SEARCH METHOD;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33645162163     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.871425     Document Type: Article

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