A heuristic approach to find the global optimum of function

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 160-166

  Duran Toksari, M ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Global optimum; Metaheuristics

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; METAHEURISTICS; SOLUTION SPACE; STANDARD TEST FUNCTIONS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 34548441531     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2006.10.074     Document Type: Article

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