A-Teams and Their Applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5796 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 36-50

  Jȩdrzejowicz, Piotr ^a  

^a GDYNIA MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; LOCAL SEARCH (OPTIMIZATION); MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; CONSTRUCTIVE ALGORITHMS; CONSTRUCTIVE METHODS; INITIAL POPULATION; LOCAL SEARCH TECHNIQUES; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; POPULATION-BASED ALGORITHM;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 70450194071     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04441-0_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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