Toward the formal foundation of ant programming

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2463, Issue , 2002, Pages 188-201

  Birattari, Mauro ^a   Di Caro, Gianni ^a   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; COMBINATORIAL PROBLEM; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DECISION PROBLEMS; FORMAL FOUNDATION; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; SEQUENTIAL DECISION PROCESS;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84974695644     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45724-0_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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