KohonAnts: A self-organizing ant algorithm for clustering and pattern classification

Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 428-435

  Mora, A M ^a   Fernandes, C M ^a,b   Merelo, J J ^a   Ramos, V ^b   Laredo, J L J ^a   Rosa, A C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT ALGORITHMS; ANT COLONY SYSTEMS; ANT-BASED CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; DATA ITEMS; FREE PARAMETERS; KOHONEN'S SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS; PARAMETER-TUNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SELF ORGANIZING;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84874627758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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