Enhanced parallel cat swarm optimization based on the Taguchi method

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6309-6319

  Tsai, Pei Wei ^a   Pan, Jeng Shyang ^a,b   Chen, Shyi Ming ^c,d   Liao, Bin Yih ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cat swarm optimization; Enhanced parallel cat swarm optimization; Parallel cat swarm optimization; Taguchi method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; FLIGHT NUMBERS; ITERATION NUMBERS; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL CAT SWARM OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONDITION; SCHEDULE RECOVERY; SMALL POPULATION; SWARM OPTIMIZATION; TEST FUNCTIONS; TOTAL DELAY TIME;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TAGUCHI METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84856967235     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.11.117     Document Type: Article

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