Solnon, Christine Ant Colony Optimization and Constraint Programming ISTE
1. Edition - April 2010 119.- Euro 2010. 320 Pages, Hardcover ISBN-10: 1-84821-130-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-84821-130-8 - John Wiley & Sons
Short description Ant colony optimization is a metaheuristic which has been successfully applied to a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. The author describes this metaheuristic and studies its efficiency for solving some hard combinatorial problems, with a specific focus on constraint programming. It describes the main existing approaches for solving constraint satisfaction problems; the ant colony optimization metaheuristic and illustrates its capabilities on different constraint satisfaction problems; and how the ant colony may be integrated within a constraint programming language.
