Using ant colony optimisation to improve the efficiency of small meander line RFID antennas

Proceedings - e-Science 2007, 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 345-351

  Randall, Marcus ^a   Lewis, Andrew ^b   Galehdar, Amir ^b   Thiel, David ^b  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

ANT COLONY OPTIMISATION (ACO); E SCIENCES; GRID SIZES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MEANDER LINE ANTENNAS; MEANDER LINES; META HEURISTIC SEARCH ALGORITHMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RF ID); REAL WORLD PROBLEMS; RFID ANTENNAE; SEARCH TECHNIQUES;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 44949100209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2007.82     Document Type: Conference Paper

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