A new hybrid ant colony optimization algorithm for feature selection

MM Kabir, M Shahjahan, K Murase - Expert Systems with Applications, 2012 - Elsevier
… ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm for feature selection (FS), called ACOFS, using a
neural network. A key aspect of this algorithm is the selection of a subset of salient features of …

An improved feature selection algorithm based on ant colony optimization

H Peng, C Ying, S Tan, B Hu, Z Sun - Ieee Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Therefore, aimed at the defects of the traditional ant colony optimization algorithms, … feature
selection method based on the ant colony optimization algorithm and the feature set selected

An unsupervised feature selection algorithm based on ant colony optimization

S Tabakhi, P Moradi, F Akhlaghian - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2014 - Elsevier
… On the other hand, unsupervised feature selection is a more … feature selection method
based on ant colony optimization, called UFSACO. The method seeks to find the optimal feature

A feature selection method based on modified binary coded ant colony optimization algorithm

Y Wan, M Wang, Z Ye, X Lai - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
… We propose a novel binary coded ant colony algorithm by blending of GA and BACO. … a
feature selection approach based on a modified binary coded ant colony optimization algorithm (…

Data feature selection based on artificial bee colony algorithm

M Schiezaro, H Pedrini - EURASIP Journal on Image and Video …, 2013 - Springer
… proposes a feature selection method for data analysis based on Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) …
have been few works on feature selection. Our work proposes a binary version of the ABC …

Text feature selection using ant colony optimization

MH Aghdam, N Ghasem-Aghaee, ME Basiri - Expert systems with …, 2009 - Elsevier
… At present there are many methods to deal with text feature selection. To improve … feature
selection algorithm that is based on ant colony optimization. Ant colony optimization algorithm

Ant colony optimization: A review of literature and application in feature selection

N Nayar, S Gautam, P Singh, G Mehta - Inventive Computation and …, 2021 - Springer
… for performing feature selection. By … algorithms have been proposed by researchers. In
this section, a review of ACO-based algorithms is presented that is used for feature selection

A wrapper-filter feature selection technique based on ant colony optimization

M Ghosh, R Guha, R Sarkar, A Abraham - Neural Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
… Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a well-explored meta-heuristic algorithm, among whose
many applications feature selection (FS) is an important one. Most existing versions of ACO are …

Efficient ant colony optimization for image feature selection

B Chen, L Chen, Y Chen - Signal processing, 2013 - Elsevier
… a feature selection algorithm based on ant colony optimization (ACO). For n features, existing
ACO-based feature selection … However, we propose a novel algorithm in which the artificial …

Unsupervised probabilistic feature selection using ant colony optimization

BZ Dadaneh, HY Markid, A Zakerolhosseini - Expert Systems with …, 2016 - Elsevier
… A major aim of the feature selection algorithms is to select a high-quality feature subset
including those which are relevant and irredundant within a reasonable time. ACO is a multi-…