Applications of Ant Colony Optimization and its Variants Case Studies and New Developments

This book explains the basic ideas behind several variants of ant colony optimization (ACO) and shows how they may be used in real-world settings like manufacturing, engineering design, and health care. Marco Dorigo proposed ACO for the first time, and it has been used to solve a variety of optimiza...

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Other Authors: Dey, Nilanjan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book explains the basic ideas behind several variants of ant colony optimization (ACO) and shows how they may be used in real-world settings like manufacturing, engineering design, and health care. Marco Dorigo proposed ACO for the first time, and it has been used to solve a variety of optimization problems. This book presents the latest developments of ACO.
Physical Description:IX, 229 p. 87 illus., 68 illus. in color online resource
ISBN:9789819972272