An improved ant colony optimization applied to attributes reduction

Advances in Soft Computing

Volumn 54, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-6

  Deng, Ting Quan ^a   Yang, Cheng Dong ^a   Zhang, Yue Tong ^a   Wang, Xin Xia ^a  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ant Colony Optimization; Attribute Reduction; Rough Sets Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952156026     PISSN: 16153871     EISSN: 18600794     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88914-4_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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