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Optimization Algorithms
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Optimization Algorithms

by Alaa Khamis
October 2024
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
20h 56m
English
Manning Publications
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C.9.1 Exercises

1. Match the terms and descriptions shown in table C.16.

Table C.16

Terms

Descriptions

1. Ant colony system (ACS)

a. Bees that search for new food sources after exhausting their current ones

2. Stigmergy

b. Positive feedback about food path causes that path to be followed by more and more ants

3. Scout bees

c. A pheromone update method that doesn’t take the desirability of the solution into account

4. Max-min ant system (MMAS)

d. The maximum number of unsuccessful attempts made by a scout bee to find a new food source

5. Autocatalytic behavior

e. Bees that probabilistically choose food sources depending on the fitness of the solutions found by the employed bees

6. Ant density model ...

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