Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
Subtitle: 4th International Workshop, ANTS 2004, Brussels, Belgium, September 5-8, 2004, Proceeding (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Marco Dorigo (Editor); Mauro Birattari (Editor); Christian Blum (Editor); Luca M. Gambardella (Editor); Francesco Mondada (Editor); Thomas Stützle (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9783540226727
Subjects: Computing and Information Technology; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Artificial Intelligence - General; Computer Science; Networking - General; Computers / Computer Science; Computers-Artificial Intelligence - General; Computers-Networking - General; ant colonies; ant colony optimization; ant programming; autonomous agent; distributed control; Ant algorithms; Congresses; Congráes; Nombres, Thâeorie des
First sentence: The Set Covering Problem (SCP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that arises in a large variety of practical applications, for example in airline crew scheduling or vehicle routing and facility placement problems [9, 12,18].