TY - BOOK AU - Dorigo,Marco AU - Stützle,Thomas AU - Stützle,Thomas TI - Ant Colony Optimization T2 - A Bradford Book Series SN - 9780262256032 AV - QA402.5.D64 2004 U1 - 519.6 PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge PB - MIT Press KW - Ants - Behavior - Mathematical models KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - From Real to Arti cial Ants -- 2 - The Ant Colony Optimization Metaheuristic -- 3 - Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem -- 4 - Ant Colony Optimization Theory -- 5 - Ant Colony Optimization for NP-Hard Problems -- 6 - AntNet: An ACO Algorithm for Data Network Routing -- 7 - Conclusions and Prospects for the Future -- Appendix: Sources of Information about the ACO Field -- References -- Index N2 - An overview of the rapidly growing field of ant colony optimization that describes theoretical findings, the major algorithms, and current applications UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3338887 ER -