Subdomain generation using emergent ant colony optimization

Computers and Structures

Volumn 84, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 1719-1728

  Bahreininejad, A ^a   Hesamfar, P ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b BUILDING AND HOUSING RESEARCH CENTER   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Domain decomposition; Finite elements; Greedy algorithm; Neural networks; Subdomain generation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SUBDOMAIN GENERATIONS;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 33748876593     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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