Swarm intelligence of artificial bees applied to in-core fuel management optimization

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1039-1045

  De Oliveira, Ioná Maghali Santos ^a   Schirru, Roberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm; Combinatorial optimization; In Core Fuel Management Optimization; Random Keys; Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONIES; ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY (ABC) ALGORITHM; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; COMBINATORIAL PROBLEM; CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION; CONTROL PARAMETERS; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; HONEY BEE; IN-CORE FUEL MANAGEMENT; IN-CORE FUEL MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION; INTELLIGENT BEHAVIOR; NEW MEMBERS; OPERATING TIME; OPERATION COST; POPULATION-BASED ALGORITHM; RANDOM KEYS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; FUELS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTOR CORES;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 79952449477     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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