A novel grouping harmony search algorithm for the multiple-type access node location problem

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5262-5270

  Landa Torres, I ^a   Gil Lopez, S ^a   Salcedo Sanz, S ^b   Ser, J Del ^a   Portilla Figueras, J A ^b  

^a TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Access node location problem; Grouping genetic algorithms; Grouping based encoding; Harmony search algorithm; Hybrid algorithms

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NODE; ALTERNATIVE ALGORITHMS; CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; COMMUNICATION NETWORKS DESIGN; CONCEPT-BASED; DIFFERENTIAL SCHEME; FASTER CONVERGENCE; GROUPING GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HARMONY SEARCH; HARMONY SEARCH ALGORITHMS; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; LOCAL SEARCH METHOD; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MPLS NETWORK; NETWORK DEPLOYMENT; NP-HARD PROBLEM; SERVICE DEMAND; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE; VARIABLE NUMBER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 84855884341     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.11.013     Document Type: Article

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