Ant colony optimization

2006 · IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine · 5,298 citations · 9 from inside this corpus

Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Thomas Stützle

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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
Artificial Intelligence through Simulated Evolution	1966	2,825
– Ant System	2000	2,730
New Ideas In Optimization	1999	2,138
Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem	1997	2,028
Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence	2004	1,514
Ant colony optimization for continuous domains	2006	1,410

What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
The Whale Optimization Algorithm	2016	14,509
A review on genetic algorithm: past, present, and future	2020	4,598
Multi-Verse Optimizer: a nature-inspired algorithm for global optimization	2015	2,942
Marine Predators Algorithm: A nature-inspired metaheuristic	2020	2,404
Equilibrium optimizer: A novel optimization algorithm	2019	2,335
Aquila Optimizer: A novel meta-heuristic optimization algorithm	2021	2,223
A survey on optimization metaheuristics	2013	1,580
Reptile Search Algorithm (RSA): A nature-inspired meta-heuristic optimizer	2021	1,436
Particle Swarm Optimization: A Comprehensive Survey	2022	1,399

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Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research	Computer Science
Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms	Computer Science
Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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