Ant colony optimization: a new meta-heuristic

2003 · 2,137 citations · 1 from inside this corpus

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What this paper cites, inside the corpus

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

What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
– Ant System	2000	2,730

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Topics

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

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supports37 reference(s) recorded.
weakensThe DOI names 1999 but the record dates this to 2,003. One of the two is about a different paper.
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