Literature review regarding Ant Colony Optimization applied to scheduling problems: Guidelines for implementation and directions for future research

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 150-161

  Tavares Neto, R F ^a   Godinho Filho, M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ant Colony Optimization; Literature review; Scheduling problems

Indexed keywords

PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

ACO ALGORITHMS; CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; SCHEDULING PROBLEM;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84870055990     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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