Agent-Based Optimization

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Czarnowski, Ireneusz (Editor), Jędrzejowicz, Piotr (Editor), Kacprzyk, Janusz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 456
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

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 s...

Table of Contents:

• 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.