A survey on parallel ant colony optimization

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 5181-5197

  Pedemonte, Martín ^a   Nesmachnow, Sergio ^a   Cancela, Héctor ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Parallel implementations; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

PROBLEM SOLVING; SURVEYS; TAXONOMIES;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); COMPLEX PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PARALLEL ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL COMPUTING TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PARALLEL MODELS; STATE OF THE ART;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 80053569478     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2011.05.042     Document Type: Article

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