Ant Colony Optimization : Techniques and Applications

Helio Barbosa

ISBN 10: 9535110012 / ISBN 13: 9789535110019

Published by Intechopen, 2013

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is the best example of how studies aimed at understanding and modeling the behavior of ants and other social insects can provide inspiration for the development of computational algorithms for the solution of difficult mathematical problems. Introduced by Marco Dorigo in his PhD thesis (1992) and initially applied to the travelling salesman problem, the ACO field has experienced a tremendous growth, standing today as an important nature-inspired stochastic metaheuristic for hard optimization problems. This book presents state-of-the-art ACO methods and is divided into two parts: (I) Techniques, which includes parallel implementations, and (II) Applications, where recent contributions of ACO to diverse fields, such as traffic congestion and control, structural optimization, manufacturing, and genomics are presented.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ant Colony Optimization : Techniques and Applications
• Publisher: Intechopen
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9535110012
• ISBN 13: 9789535110019
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 266W x 185H x 19D millimeters 266 millimeters width by 185 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 681 grams

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Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is the best example of how studies aimed at understanding and modeling the behavior of ants and other social insects can provide inspiration for the development of computational algorithms for the solution of difficult mathematical problems. Introduced by Marco Dorigo in his PhD thesis (1992) and initially applied to the travelling salesman problem, the ACO field has experienced a tremendous growth, standing today as an important nature-inspired stochastic metaheuristic for hard optimization problems. This book presents state-of-the-art ACO methods and is divided into two parts: (I) Techniques, which includes parallel implementations, and (II) Applications, where recent contributions of ACO to diverse fields, such as traffic congestion and control, structural optimization, manufacturing, and genomics are presented.