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GECCO
2005
Springer
203views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Ant colony optimization for power plant maintenance scheduling optimization
In order to maintain a reliable and economic electric power supply, the maintenance of power plants is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, a formulation that enables a...
Wai-Kuan Foong, Holger R. Maier, Angus R. Simpson
ESCIENCE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Using Ant Colony Optimisation to Improve the Efficiency of Small Meander Line RFID Antennas
Increasing the efficiency of meander line antennas is an important real-world problem within radio frequency identification (RFID). Meta-heuristic search algorithms, such as ant c...
Marcus Randall, Andrew Lewis, Amir Galehdar, David...
IMCSIT
2010
13 years 5 months ago
ACO with semi-random start applied on MKP
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a stochastic search method that mimics the social behavior of real ants colonies, which manage to establish the shortest route to feeding sources a...
Stefka Fidanova, Pencho Marinov, Krassimir T. Atan...
CORR
2004
Springer
180views Education» more  CORR 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
Self-Organized Stigmergic Document Maps: Environment as a Mechanism for Context Learning
Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
Vitorino Ramos, Juan J. Merelo Guervós
ICNC
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Adaptive Parallel Ant Colony Algorithm
: Two strategies for information exchange between processors in parallel ant colony algorithm are presented. Theses strategies can make each processor choose other processors to co...
Ling Chen, Chunfang Zhang