A hybrid ant colony optimization for continuous domains

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 11072-11077

  Xiao, Jing ^a   Li, Liangping ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Continuous optimization; Continuous population based incremental learning; Differential evolution

Indexed keywords

ACO ALGORITHMS; ANT COLONY ALGORITHMS; ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; CONTINUOUS DOMAIN; CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; GAUSSIAN PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIANS; HYBRID ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; MEAN VALUES; NEW APPROACHES; POPULATION-BASED INCREMENTAL LEARNING; TEST FUNCTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79955610429     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.02.151     Document Type: Article

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