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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438048503321

Titolo

Agent-based evolutionary search / / Ruhul Amin Sarker and Tapabrata Ray (Eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Heidelberg, : Springer-Verlag, c2010

ISBN

9783642340970

3642340970

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 206 p.)

Collana

Adaptation, learning and optimization ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

SarkerRuhul A

RayTapabrata

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Multiagent systems

Evolutionary computation

Computer algorithms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine Learning and Multiagent Systems as Interrelated Technologies -- Ant Colony Optimization for the Multi-criteria Vehicle Navigation Problem -- Solving Instances of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem Using Multi-Agent Non-Distributed and Distributed Environment -- Structure vs. Efficiency of the Cross-Entropy Based Population Learning Algorithm for Discrete-Continuous Scheduling with Continuous Resource Discretisation -- Triple-Action Agents Solving the MRCPSP/max Problem -- Team of A-Teams - a Study of the Cooperation Between Program Agents Solving Difficult Optimization Problems -- Distributed Bregman-Distance Algorithms for Min-Max Optimization -- A Probability Collectives Approach for Multi-Agent Distributed and Cooperative Optimization with Tolerance for Agent Failure.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a collection of original research works by leading specialists focusing on novel and promising approaches in which the multi-agent system paradigm is used to support, enhance or replace traditional approaches to solving difficult optimization problems. The editors have invited several well-known specialists to present their solutions, tools, and models falling under the common denominator of



the agent-based optimization. The book consists of eight chapters covering examples of application of the multi-agent paradigm and respective customized tools to solveĀ  difficult optimization problems arising in different areas such as machine learning, scheduling, transportation and, more generally, distributed and cooperative problem solving.