1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910317752303321

Autore

Barbosa Helio J.C

Titolo

Ant Colony Optimization : Techniques and Applications / / Helio J. C. Barbosa, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

IntechOpen, 2013

Rijeka, Croatia : , : IntechOpen, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

953-51-5717-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

595.796

Soggetti

Ants - Behavior - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is the best example of how studies aimed at understanding and modeling the behavior of ants and other social insects can provide inspiration for the development of computational algorithms for the solution of difficult mathematical problems. Introduced by Marco Dorigo in his PhD thesis (1992) and initially applied to the travelling salesman problem, the ACO field has experienced a tremendous growth, standing today as an important nature-inspired stochastic metaheuristic for hard optimization problems. This book presents state-of-the-art ACO methods and is divided into two parts: (I) Techniques, which includes parallel implementations, and (II) Applications, where recent contributions of ACO to diverse fields, such as traffic congestion and control, structural optimization, manufacturing, and genomics are presented.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792876103321

Autore

Fitzpatrick Tony <1966-, >

Titolo

A green history of the welfare state / / Tony Fitzpatrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-76954-9

1-317-66975-4

1-317-66976-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages)

Collana

Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

Classificazione

16.20.08

Disciplina

306.0941

Soggetti

climate change

social policy

welfare

social change

United Kingdom

Environmental policy - Social aspects - Great Britain

Welfare state - Great Britain

Great Britain Social policy

Great Britain Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Made of coal and surrounded by fish : 1945-51 -- 2. A final farewell : 1951-55 -- 3. An impenetrable fog : 1952-64 -- 4. Upheavals : 1964-70 -- 5. Crises of power : 1970-74 -- The party is over : 1974-79 -- The soul of a marketplace : 1979-87 -- Venus in capitalist furs : 1987-90 -- The long shadows : 1990-97 -- New dawn, new politics, new Britain : 1997-2001 -- Fixing the planet : 1997-2005 -- Crashing and burning : 2005-10.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146598703321

Titolo

Proceedings of the ... Bear Workshop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Ottawa, Ont.] : , : [Canadian Wildlife Service], , 1968

Soggetti

Bears

Wildlife management

Congresses.

Periodicals.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from cover (JSTOR, viewed May 30, 2007).