Ant Colony Optimization

2007 · 6,672 citations · 18 from inside this corpus

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Paper	Year	Cited
Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents	1996	12,034
Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem	1997	8,077
– Ant System	2000	2,730
Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem	1997	2,028

What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Grey Wolf Optimizer	2014	19,144
The Whale Optimization Algorithm	2016	14,509
Teaching–learning-based optimization: A novel method for constrained mechanical design op…	2011	5,154
Multi-Verse Optimizer: a nature-inspired algorithm for global optimization	2015	2,942
Firefly algorithm, stochastic test functions and design optimisation	2010	2,715
Marine Predators Algorithm: A nature-inspired metaheuristic	2020	2,404
Equilibrium optimizer: A novel optimization algorithm	2019	2,335
Ant colony optimization theory: A survey	2005	2,308
Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms: A survey of the state of the art	2011	2,256
Aquila Optimizer: A novel meta-heuristic optimization algorithm	2021	2,223
Ant Colony Optimization	2006	1,872
The irace package: Iterated racing for automatic algorithm configuration	2016	1,725
A Field Guide to Genetic Programming	2008	1,669
A survey on optimization metaheuristics	2013	1,580
Symbiotic Organisms Search: A new metaheuristic optimization algorithm	2014	1,572
Reptile Search Algorithm (RSA): A nature-inspired meta-heuristic optimizer	2021	1,436
Ant colony optimization for continuous domains	2006	1,410
A review of clustering techniques and developments	2017	1,369

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Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research	Computer Science
Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms	Computer Science
Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods	Engineering

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