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EVOW
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Ant Colony Optimization for Tree Decompositions
Instances of constraint satisfaction problems can be solved efficiently if they are representable as a tree decomposition of small width. Unfortunately, the task of finding a deco...
Thomas Hammerl, Nysret Musliu
EVOW
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Swarm Intelligence Inspired Multicast Routing: An Ant Colony Optimization Approach
Abstract. The advancement of network induces great demands on a series of applications such as the multicast routing. This paper firstly makes a brief review on the algorithms in ...
Xiaomin Hu, Jun Zhang, Li-Ming Zhang
CEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
DEACO: Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization with Differential Evolution
—Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is a novel meta-heuristic algorithm for the approximate solution of combinatorial optimization problems that has been inspired by the for...
Xiangyin Zhang, Haibin Duan, Jiqiang Jin
GECCO
2004
Springer
152views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimisation Technique for Dynamic Vehicle Routing
Abstract. This paper is concerned with a dynamic vehicle routing problem. The problem is dynamic in the sense that the time it will take to traverse each edge is uncertain. The pro...
Darren M. Chitty, Marcel L. Hernandez
GECCO
2008
Springer
182views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Scaling ant colony optimization with hierarchical reinforcement learning partitioning
This paper merges hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) with ant colony optimization (ACO) to produce a HRL ACO algorithm capable of generating solutions for large domains. Th...
Erik J. Dries, Gilbert L. Peterson