A distributed multilevel ant-colony algorithm for the multi-way graph partitioning

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 286-296

  Tashkova, K ^a   Korosec P ^a   Silc J ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimisation; Bio inspired computation; Distributed computing; Graph partitioning; Multilevel approach

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; BIOMIMETICS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS;

ANT COLONY ALGORITHMS; BIO INSPIRED COMPUTATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; GRAPH PARTITIONING; GRAPH PARTITIONING PROBLEMS; META-HEURISTIC APPROACH; MULTILEVEL APPROACH; SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS;

GRAPH ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84860760470     PISSN: 17580366     EISSN: 17580374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIC.2011.042257     Document Type: Article

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