An improved ant colony optimization for the maximum clique problem

Proceedings - Third International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 766-770

  Xu, Xinshun ^a   Ma, Jun ^a   Lei, Jingsheng ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; MAXIMUM CLIQUE PROBLEMS;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 38049095637     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNC.2007.205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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