Wisdom of artificial crowds algorithm for solving NP-hard problems

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 358-369

  Yampolskiy, Roman V ^a   EL Barkouky, Ahmed ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Knapsack problem; KP; NP complete; Optimisation; Travelling salesman problem; TSP; Wisdom of artificial crowds; WoAC

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

KNAPSACK PROBLEMS; NP COMPLETE; OPTIMISATIONS; TRAVELLING SALESMAN PROBLEM; WISDOM OF ARTIFICIAL CROWDS; WOAC;

NP-HARD;

EID: 84861894245     PISSN: 17580366     EISSN: 17580374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIC.2011.043624     Document Type: Article

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