Rule‐Based Classification Based on Ant Colony Optimization: A Comprehensive Review

SKM Hossain, SA Ema, H Sohn - … Intelligence and Soft …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms have been well‐studied by the Operations
Research community for solving combinatorial optimization problems. A handful of …

Ant Colony Optimization‐Based Streaming Feature Selection: An Application to the Medical Image Diagnosis

LG Fahad, SF Tahir, W Shahzad… - Scientific …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Irrelevant and redundant features increase the computation and storage requirements, and
the extraction of required information becomes challenging. Feature selection enables us to …

Learning Bayesian network classifiers using ant colony optimization

KM Salama, AA Freitas - Swarm Intelligence, 2013 - Springer
Bayesian networks are knowledge representation tools that model the (in) dependency
relationships among variables for probabilistic reasoning. Classification with Bayesian …

Ant colony algorithms for constructing Bayesian multi-net classifiers

KM Salama, AA Freitas - Intelligent Data Analysis, 2015 - content.iospress.com
Abstract Bayesian Multi-nets (BMNs) are a special kind of Bayesian network (BN) classifiers
that consist of several local Bayesian networks, one for each predictable class, to model an …

To tune or not to tune: rule evaluation for metaheuristic-based sequential covering algorithms

B Minnaert, D Martens, M De Backer… - Data mining and …, 2015 - Springer
While many papers propose innovative methods for constructing individual rules in separate-
and-conquer rule learning algorithms, comparatively few study the heuristic rule evaluation …

Classification with cluster-based Bayesian multi-nets using Ant Colony Optimisation

KM Salama, AA Freitas - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2014 - Elsevier
Bayesian multi-net (BMN) classifiers consist of several local models, one for each data
subset, to model asymmetric, more consistent dependency relationships among variables in …

Improving the cAnt-MinerPB Classification Algorithm

M Medland, FEB Otero, AA Freitas - Swarm Intelligence: 8th International …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) has been successfully applied to the classification
task of data mining in the form of Ant-Miner. A new extension of Ant-Miner, called c Ant-Miner …

A study of different quality evaluation functions in the cant-miner (pb) classification algorithm

M Medland, F Otero - Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms for classification in general employ a sequential
covering strategy to create a list of classification rules. A key component in this strategy is the …

Using a unified measure function for heuristics, discretization, and rule quality evaluation in Ant-Miner

KM Salama, FEB Otero - 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ant-Miner is a classification rule discovery algorithm that is based on Ant Colony
Optimization (ACO) metaheuristic. cAnt-Miner is the extended version of the algorithm that …

[PDF][PDF] Temporal performances evaluation of multi-robot demining system inspired by ant behavior

R Saaidia, MS Bellamine, AB Amor - International Journal of …, 2016 - academia.edu
In this paper we adopt a cooperative strategy based on ACO (Ant Colony Optimization)
algorithms to coordinate a Multi Robots System (MRS). Our principal objective is to evaluate …