Among the emerged metaheuristic optimization techniques, ant colony optimization (ACO)
has received considerable attentions in water resources and environmental planning and …

This work presents a regularization technique applied to an inverse radiative transfer
problem formulated as a finite dimensional optimization problem and solved by a …

Ant colony algorithms are computational methods for solving problems that are inspired by
the behaviour of real ant colonies. One particularly interesting aspect of the behaviour of ant …

The determination of some inherent optical properties can be addressed by estimating the
ocean chlorophyll concentration, if bio-optical models can be applied–such as for the …

An Ant Colony System (ACS) minimizer is implemented for the solution of the inverse
radiative transfer problem associated to the estimation of the optical thickness, single …

This work presents an inverse radiative transfer problem that is written as an optimization
problem and solved by an Ant Colony System (ACS) method. The ACS employs a …

The paper describes the parallel ant-based vehicle navigation algorithm adapted to run on
GPUs. Experiments performed on real-world data show, that this new algorithm is more …

The chapter describes the multi-agent ant-based vehicle navigation algorithms, which find
multi-criteria optimal route between two points on the map. Presented are various versions …

Inverse radiative heat transfer problems have several relevant applications in many different
areas such as astronomy, environmental sciences, engineering and medicine. Some …

This paper studies the effectiveness of using parallel Ant Colony Optimization for sequence
dependent parallel machine scheduling on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) hardware …