Ant colony system with communication strategies

Information Sciences

Volumn 167, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 63-76

  Chu, Shu Chuan ^a,b   Roddick, John F ^a   Pan, Jeng Shyang ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ant colony system (ACS); Ant system (AS); Communication strategies

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

ANT COLONY SYSTEM (ACS); ANT SYSTEM (AS); COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES; DATA SETS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 9544240357     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2003.10.013     Document Type: Article

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