Hybridizing ant colony optimization with firefly algorithm for unconstrained optimization problems

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 224, Issue , 2013, Pages 473-483

  Rizk Allah, R M ^a   Zaki, Elsayed M ^a   El Sawy, Ahmed Ahmed ^a  

^a Menoufia University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Firefly algorithm; Unconstrained optimization

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; FIREFLY ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLUMINESCENCE;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84884878533     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2013.07.092     Document Type: Article

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