An ant colony optimizer for melody creation with baroque harmony

2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 461-468

  Geis, Michael ^a,b   Middendorf, Martin ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Composition; Genetic algorithms; Harmonization

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; HARMONIZATION; HARMONIZED MELODIES;

COMPUTER MUSIC; HEURISTIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; OPTIMIZATION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70449489745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2007.4424507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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