On the analysis of the immune-inspired B-cell algorithm for the vertex cover problem

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

Volumn 6825 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 117-131

  Jansen, Thomas ^a   Oliveto, Pietro S ^b   Zarges, Christine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION RATIOS; B-CELL ALGORITHMS; NP-HARD; POPULATION SIZES; RUNTIMES; SEARCH HEURISTICS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; VERTEX COVER PROBLEMS; WORST CASE;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; IMMUNOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79960380349     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22371-6_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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