Engineering optimization with hybrid particle swarm and ant colony optimization

Asian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 611-628

  Kaveh, A ^a   Talatahari, S ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ant colony; Engineering design problems; Harmony search; Optimization algorithm; Particle swarm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962030286     PISSN: 15630854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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