Ant colony optimization theory: A survey

2005 · Theoretical Computer Science · 2,308 citations · 3 from inside this corpus

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What this paper cites, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems	1992	35,569
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
Information theory and statistics	1959	7,244
Ant Colony Optimization	2007	6,672
Ant Colony Optimization	2004	3,297
Artificial Intelligence through Simulated Evolution	1966	2,825
– Ant System	2000	2,730
Learning in Graphical Models	1998	2,437
New Ideas In Optimization	1999	2,138
Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing	1987	1,763

What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Imperialist competitive algorithm: An algorithm for optimization inspired by imperialisti…	2007	2,654
A survey on optimization metaheuristics	2013	1,580
Black hole: A new heuristic optimization approach for data clustering	2012	1,376

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

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