The Ant Colony Optimization Metaheuristic

2004 · The MIT Press eBooks · 1,419 citations · 3 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
Distributed Optimization by Ant Colonies	1992	2,583
Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem	1997	2,028

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Paper	Year	Cited
– Ant System	2000	2,730
Theoretical and numerical constraint-handling techniques used with evolutionary algorithm…	2002	2,332
Ant Colony Optimization	2006	1,872

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Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research	Computer Science
Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods	Engineering
Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms	Engineering

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