Keyword: heuristics: ant systems

Found 160 papers in total
Cost optimisation of supply chain networks using Ant Colony Optimisation
Cost optimisation of supply chain networks using Ant Colony Optimisation
2011,
With increasing competitiveness in the business world, the focus on supply chains is...
Multi‐objective ant colony optimisation: A meta‐heuristic approach to supply chain design
Multi‐objective ant colony optimisation: A meta‐heuristic approach to supply chain design
2011,
This paper proposes a new approach to determining the Supply Chain (SC) design for a...
Metaheuristics for scheduling jobs with incompatible families on parallel batching machines
Metaheuristics for scheduling jobs with incompatible families on parallel batching machines
2011,
In this paper, we discuss the scheduling of jobs with incompatible families on...
Animal dynamics based approach for modeling pedestrian crowd egress under panic conditions
Animal dynamics based approach for modeling pedestrian crowd egress under panic conditions
2011,
Collective movement is important during emergencies such as natural disasters or...
A hybrid ACO‐GRASP algorithm for clustering analysis
A hybrid ACO‐GRASP algorithm for clustering analysis
2011,
Cluster analysis is an important tool for data exploration and it has been applied in...
A web spatial decision support system for vehicle routing using Google Maps
A web spatial decision support system for vehicle routing using Google Maps
2011,
This article presents a user‐friendly web‐based spatial decision support...
An improved ant colony optimization algorithm for nonlinear resource‐leveling problems
An improved ant colony optimization algorithm for nonlinear resource‐leveling problems
2011,
The notion of using a meta‐heuristic approach to solve nonlinear...
Cognitive and self‐selective routing for sensor networks
Cognitive and self‐selective routing for sensor networks
2011,
New approaches to Quality-of-Service (QoS) routing in wireless sensor networks which...
A unified framework for population‐based metaheuristics
A unified framework for population‐based metaheuristics
2011,
Based on the analysis of the basic schemes of a variety of population‐based...
A hybrid cooperative search algorithm for constrained optimization
A hybrid cooperative search algorithm for constrained optimization
2011,
Many engineering design problems can be formulated as constrained optimization...
Elitist Continuous Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Optimal Management of Coastal Aquifers
Elitist Continuous Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Optimal Management of Coastal Aquifers
2011,
This paper presents an evolutionary based approach to achieve optimal management of a...
An Ant Colony algorithm hybridized with insertion heuristics for the Time Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
An Ant Colony algorithm hybridized with insertion heuristics for the Time Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
2011,
A shortcoming of Ant Colony algorithms for capacitated routing problems is that, at...
Meta-heuristic algorithms for wafer sorting scheduling problems
Meta-heuristic algorithms for wafer sorting scheduling problems
2011,
Wafer sorting is usually regarded as the most critical stage in the whole wafer...
Ant-based routing in wireless sensor networks
Ant-based routing in wireless sensor networks
2010,
This paper proposes an ant-based routing algorithm, Ant System-Routing in wireless...
Dynamic Policy Modeling for Chronic Diseases: Metaheuristic-Based Identification of Pareto-Optimal Screening Strategies
Dynamic Policy Modeling for Chronic Diseases: Metaheuristic-Based Identification of Pareto-Optimal Screening Strategies
2010,
We present a risk-group oriented chronic disease progression model embedded within a...
An approach to the minimisation of makespan in the textile industry using ant colony optimisation
An approach to the minimisation of makespan in the textile industry using ant colony optimisation
2010,
In modern industries, the optimisation of processes is very important to increase...
An ant colony optimization metaheuristic for single-path multicommodity network flow problems
An ant colony optimization metaheuristic for single-path multicommodity network flow problems
2010,
This paper studies the single-path multicommodity network flow problem (SMNF), in...
Design of reliable communication networks: A hybrid ant colony optimization algorithm
Design of reliable communication networks: A hybrid ant colony optimization algorithm
2010,
This article proposes a hybrid approach based on Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and...
Credit scoring using an ant mining approach
Credit scoring using an ant mining approach
2010,
Credit scoring or credit risk assessment is a domain of major importance for financial...
Non-dominated archiving multi-colony ant algorithm for multi-objective optimization: Application to multi-purpose reservoir operation
Non-dominated archiving multi-colony ant algorithm for multi-objective optimization: Application to multi-purpose reservoir operation
2009,
Multi-objective optimization using heuristic methods has been established as a...
Performance of an ant colony optimisation algorithm in dynamic job shop scheduling problems
Performance of an ant colony optimisation algorithm in dynamic job shop scheduling problems
2009,
The goal of the current study is to identify appropriate application domains of Ant...
Ant colony optimisation with parameterised search space for the job shop scheduling problem
Ant colony optimisation with parameterised search space for the job shop scheduling problem
2010,
The job-shop scheduling problem (JSSP) is known to be NP-hard. Due to its complexity,...
Clustering optimal design in wireless sensor network using ant colony optimization
Clustering optimal design in wireless sensor network using ant colony optimization
2009,
The objective of this paper is to propose an ant colony optimization (ACO) for...
A modified ant colony algorithm for the stacking sequence optimisation of a rectangular laminate
A modified ant colony algorithm for the stacking sequence optimisation of a rectangular laminate
2010,
This paper presents a modified Ant Colony Algorithm (ACA) called multi-city-layer ant...
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