An ACO algorithm benchmarked on the BBOB noiseless function testbed

GECCO'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 159-166

  Liao, Tianjun ^a   Molina, Daniel ^b   Stützle, Thomas ^a   Montes De Oca, Marco A ^c   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Benchmarking; Black box optimization; Continuous domains

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); TESTBEDS;

ACO ALGORITHMS; ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; BLACK-BOX OPTIMIZATION; CONTINUOUS DOMAIN; DIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONS; GA ALGORITHM; ILL-CONDITIONED; MULTI MODAL FUNCTION;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84865024953     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2330784.2330809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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