Theoretical And Practical Aspects Of Ant Colony Optimization
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Theoretical And Practical Aspects Of Ant Colony Optimization
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Author : Christian Blum
language : en
Publisher: IOS Press
Release Date : 2004
Theoretical And Practical Aspects Of Ant Colony Optimization written by Christian Blum and has been published by IOS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Ant algorithms categories.
Combinatorial optimization problems are of high academical and practical importance. Unfortunately, many of them belong to the class of NP-hard problems and are therefore intractable. In other words, as their dimension increases, the time needed by exact methods to find an optimal solution grows exponentially. Metaheuristics are approximate methods for attacking these problems. An approximate method is a technique that is applied in order to find a good enough solution in a reasonable amount of time. Examples of metaheuristics are simulated annealing, tabu search, evolutionary computation, and ant colony optimization (ACO), the subject of this book. The contributions of this book to ACO research are twofold. First, some new theoretical results are proven that improve our understanding of how ACO works. Second, a new framework for ACO algorithms is proposed that is shown to perform at the state-of-the-art level on some important combinatorial optimization problems such as the k-cardinality tree problem and the group shop scheduling problem, which is a general shop scheduling problem that includes among others the well-known job shop scheduling and the open shop scheduling problems.
Ant Colony Optimization
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Author : Marco Dorigo
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2004-06-04
Ant Colony Optimization written by Marco Dorigo and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-04 with Computers categories.
An overview of the rapidly growing field of ant colony optimization that describes theoretical findings, the major algorithms, and current applications. The complex social behaviors of ants have been much studied by science, and computer scientists are now finding that these behavior patterns can provide models for solving difficult combinatorial optimization problems. The attempt to develop algorithms inspired by one aspect of ant behavior, the ability to find what computer scientists would call shortest paths, has become the field of ant colony optimization (ACO), the most successful and widely recognized algorithmic technique based on ant behavior. This book presents an overview of this rapidly growing field, from its theoretical inception to practical applications, including descriptions of many available ACO algorithms and their uses. The book first describes the translation of observed ant behavior into working optimization algorithms. The ant colony metaheuristic is then introduced and viewed in the general context of combinatorial optimization. This is followed by a detailed description and guide to all major ACO algorithms and a report on current theoretical findings. The book surveys ACO applications now in use, including routing, assignment, scheduling, subset, machine learning, and bioinformatics problems. AntNet, an ACO algorithm designed for the network routing problem, is described in detail. The authors conclude by summarizing the progress in the field and outlining future research directions. Each chapter ends with bibliographic material, bullet points setting out important ideas covered in the chapter, and exercises. Ant Colony Optimization will be of interest to academic and industry researchers, graduate students, and practitioners who wish to learn how to implement ACO algorithms.
Ant Colony Optimization And Swarm Intelligence
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Author : Marco Dorigo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-11-24
Ant Colony Optimization And Swarm Intelligence written by Marco Dorigo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-24 with Mathematics categories.
1 With its fourth edition, the ANTS series of workshops has changed its name. The original"ANTS-From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants: International Workshop on Ant Algorithms" has become "ANTS - International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence". This change is mainly due to the following reasons. First, the term "ant algorithms" was slower in spreading in the research community than the term "swarm intelligence", while at the same time research inso-called swarm robotics was the subject of increasing activity: it was therefore an obvious choice to substitute the term ant algorithms with the more accepted and used term swarm intelligence. Second, although swarm intelligence research has undoubtedly produced a 2 number of interesting and promising research directions, we think it is fair to say that its most successful strand is the one known as "ant colony optimization". Ant colony optimization, first introduced in the early 1990s as a novel tool for the approximate solution of discrete optimization problems, has recently seen an explosion in the number of its applications, both to academic and real-world problems, and is currently being extended to the realm of continuous optimization (a few papers on this subject being published in these proceedings). It is therefore a reasonable choice to have the term ant colony optimization as part of the workshop name
Large Scale Scientific Computing
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Author : Ivan Lirkov
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-05-10
Large Scale Scientific Computing written by Ivan Lirkov and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-10 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations, LSSC 2009, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, in June 2009. The 93 revised full papers presented together with 5 plenary and invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on multilevel and multiscale preconditioning methods multilevel and multiscale methods for industrial applications, environmental modeling, control and uncertain systems, application of metaheuristics to large scale problems, monte carlo: methods, applications, distributed computing, grid and scientific and engineering applications, reliable numerical methods for differential equations, novel applications of optimization ideas to the numerical Solution of PDEs, and contributed talks.
Handbook Of Metaheuristics
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Author : Michel Gendreau
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-09-20
Handbook Of Metaheuristics written by Michel Gendreau and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-20 with Business & Economics categories.
The third edition of this handbook is designed to provide a broad coverage of the concepts, implementations, and applications in metaheuristics. The book’s chapters serve as stand-alone presentations giving both the necessary underpinnings as well as practical guides for implementation. The nature of metaheuristics invites an analyst to modify basic methods in response to problem characteristics, past experiences, and personal preferences, and the chapters in this handbook are designed to facilitate this process as well. This new edition has been fully revised and features new chapters on swarm intelligence and automated design of metaheuristics from flexible algorithm frameworks. The authors who have contributed to this volume represent leading figures from the metaheuristic community and are responsible for pioneering contributions to the fields they write about. Their collective work has significantly enriched the field of optimization in general and combinatorial optimization in particular.Metaheuristics are solution methods that orchestrate an interaction between local improvement procedures and higher level strategies to create a process capable of escaping from local optima and performing a robust search of a solution space. In addition, many new and exciting developments and extensions have been observed in the last few years. Hybrids of metaheuristics with other optimization techniques, like branch-and-bound, mathematical programming or constraint programming are also increasingly popular. On the front of applications, metaheuristics are now used to find high-quality solutions to an ever-growing number of complex, ill-defined real-world problems, in particular combinatorial ones. This handbook should continue to be a great reference for researchers, graduate students, as well as practitioners interested in metaheuristics.
Advances In Swarm Intelligence
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Author : Ying Tan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-06-13
Advances In Swarm Intelligence written by Ying Tan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-13 with Computers categories.
This book and its companion volume, LNCS vols. 7331 and 7332, constitute the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2012, held in Shenzhen, China in June 2012. The 145 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 247 submissions. The papers are organized in 27 cohesive sections covering all major topics of swarm intelligence research and developments.
Bio Inspired Computing Theories And Applications
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Author : Linqiang Pan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-04-01
Bio Inspired Computing Theories And Applications written by Linqiang Pan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-01 with Computers categories.
This two-volume set (CCIS 1159 and CCIS 1160) constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2019, held in Zhengzhou, China, in November 2019. The 121 full papers presented in both volumes were selected from 197 submissions. The papers are organized according to the topical headings: evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence; bioinformatics and systems biology; complex networks; DNA and molecular computing; neural networks and articial intelligence.
Advances In Nature Inspired Computing And Applications
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Author : Shishir Kumar Shandilya
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-08-29
Advances In Nature Inspired Computing And Applications written by Shishir Kumar Shandilya and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-29 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book contains research contributions from leading global scholars in nature-inspired computing. It includes comprehensive coverage of each respective topic, while also highlighting recent and future trends. The contributions provides readers with a snapshot of the state of the art in the field of nature-inspired computing and its application. This book has focus on the current researches while highlighting the empirical results along with theoretical concepts to provide a comprehensive reference for students, researchers, scholars, professionals and practitioners in the field of Advanced Artificial Intelligence, Nature-Inspired Algorithms and Soft Computing.
Intelligent Systems From Theory To Practice
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Author : Vassil Sgurev
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-09-23
Intelligent Systems From Theory To Practice written by Vassil Sgurev and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-23 with Technology & Engineering categories.
In the modern science and technology there are some research directions and ch- lenges which are at the forefront of world wide research activities because of their relevance. This relevance may be related to different aspects. First, from a point of view of researchers it can be implied by just an analytic or algorithmic difficulty in the solution of problems within an area. From a broader perspective, this re- vance can be related to how important problems and challenges in a particular area are to society, corporate or national competitiveness, etc. Needless to say that the latter, more global challenges are probably more decisive a driving force for s- ence seen from a global perspective. One of such “meta-challenges” in the present world is that of intelligent s- tems. For a long time it has been obvious that the complexity of our world and the speed of changes we face in virtually all processes that have impact on our life imply a need to automate many tasks and processes that have been so far limited to human beings because they require some sort of intelligence.
Software Engineering And Knowledge Engineering Theory And Practice
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Author : Yanwen Wu
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-01-15
Software Engineering And Knowledge Engineering Theory And Practice written by Yanwen Wu and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The volume includes a set of selected papers extended and revised from the I2009 Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2009) was held on December 19~ 20, 2009, Shenzhen, China. Volume 1 is to provide a forum for researchers, educators, engineers, and government officials involved in the general areas of Computer and Software Engineering to disseminate their latest research results and exchange views on the future research directions of these fields. 140 high-quality papers are included in the volume. Each paper has been peer-reviewed by at least 2 program committee members and selected by the volume editor Prof. Yanwen Wu. On behalf of this volume, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to all of authors and referees for their efforts reviewing the papers. Hoping you can find lots of profound research ideas and results on the related fields of Computer and Software Engineering.