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AUSAI
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Applying Ant Algorithms and the No Fit Polygon to the Nesting Problem
In previous work solutions for the nesting problem are produced using the no fit polygon (NFP), a new evaluation method and three evolutionary algorithms (simulated annealing (SA),...
Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
Web Page Classification with an Ant Colony Algorithm
This paper utilizes Ant-Miner – the first Ant Colony algorithm for discovering classification rules – in the field of web content mining, and shows that it is more effective th...
Nicholas Holden, Alex Alves Freitas
SWARM
2012
SPRINGER
329views Optimization» more  SWARM 2012»
12 years 2 months ago
A critical analysis of parameter adaptation in ant colony optimization
Applying parameter adaptation means operating on parameters of an algorithm while it is tackling an instance. For ant colony optimization, several parameter adaptation methods have...
Paola Pellegrini, Thomas Stützle, Mauro Birat...
ALIFE
2002
13 years 7 months ago
Ant Colony Optimization and Stochastic Gradient Descent
In this paper, we study the relationship between the two techniques known as ant colony optimization (aco) and stochastic gradient descent. More precisely, we show that some empir...
Nicolas Meuleau, Marco Dorigo
ICTAI
2005
IEEE
14 years 29 days ago
Cellular Ants: Combining Ant-Based Clustering with Cellular Automata
This paper proposes a novel data clustering algorithm, coined ‘cellular ants’, which combines principles of cellular automata and ant colony optimization algorithms to group s...
Andrew Vande Moere, Justin James Clayden