Hybrid ant colony optimization algorithms for mixed discrete-continuous optimization problems

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 219, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3241-3252

  Liao, T Warren ^a   Kuo, R J ^b   Hu, J T L ^c  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

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

^c NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Constrained optimization; Hybrid metaheuristic; Metaheuristic; Mixed discrete continuous

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; GLOBALOPTIMUM; HANDLING CONSTRAINTS; HYBRID ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; LOCAL SEARCH; LOCAL SEARCH METHOD; METAHEURISTIC; MIXED DISCRETE-CONTINUOUS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PENALTY METHODS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84868468233     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2012.09.064     Document Type: Article

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