Ant Colony Optimization and Constraint Programming

Book Description Ant colony optimization is a metaheuristic which has been successfully applied to a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. The author describes this metaheuristic and studies its efficiency for solving some hard combinatorial problems, with a specific focus on constraint programming. The text is organized into three parts. The first part introduces constraint programming, which provides high level features to declaratively model problems by means of constraints. It describes the main existing approaches for solving constraint satisfaction problems, including complete tree search approaches and metaheuristics, and shows how they can be integrated within constraintprogramming languages. Book Details Publisher: Wiley By: Christine Solnon ISBN: 978-1-84821-130-8 Year: 2010 Pages: 320 Language: English File size: 5.1 MB File format: PDF eBook Download: Ant Colony Optimization and Constraint Programming Paper Book Buy: Ant Colony Optimization and Constraint Programming Online Book Read: Ant Colony Optimization and Constraint Programming