Ant colony optimization for continuous domains
Ant colony optimization for continuous domains is a scholarly work by Marco Dorigo, published in 2008 in ''European Journal of Operational Research''. The main subjects of the publication include mathematical optimization, biological robustness, optimization problem, vehicle routing problem, combinatorial optimization, Parallel metaheuristic, Meta-optimization, Multi-swarm optimization, robust optimization, Extremal optimization, job-shop scheduling, ant colony, computer science, metaheuristic, Continuous optimization, ant colony optimization algorithms, and swarm intelligence. The authors show how ACO, which was initially developed to be a metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization, can be adapted to continuous optimization without any major conceptual change to its structure.