Understanding the pheromone system within ant colony optimization

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3809 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 786-789

  Gilmour, Stephen ^a   Dras, Mark ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; METAHEURISTICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 33745610088     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11589990_81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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