– Ant System

2000 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 2,730 citations · 5 from inside this corpus

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9 of 9 neighbouring works in this corpus. Blue is what this paper cites; orange is what cites it, and a dashed line is one neighbour citing another. Only the largest labels are drawn — every node carries its full title on hover.

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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
Ant colony optimization: a new meta-heuristic	2003	2,137
The Ant Colony Optimization Metaheuristic	2004	1,419

What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Ant Colony Optimization	2007	6,672
Ant colony optimization	2006	5,298
Ant colony optimization theory: A survey	2005	2,308
Ant Colony Optimization	2006	1,872
Ant colony optimization for continuous domains	2006	1,410

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Topics

Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research	Computer Science
Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods	Engineering
Optimization and Packing Problems	Engineering

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complete

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supports58 reference(s) recorded.
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