In this paper we analyze the application of the Ant Colony Optimization to the Minimum Weight Vertex Covering Problem. We use the software system that we developed and implemented different standard ACO algorithms to this problem: Ant Colony System, the use of Elitism, Rank based approach and the MinMax system. We have made a comparative assessment of the effectiveness of these algorithms to th...

-The ant colony optimization takes insipiration from the foraging behavior of some ant species.These ants deposits pheromone on the ground in order to make some suitable path that should be followed by other members of the colony.The goal of this paper is to introduce ant colony optimization and to survey its most notable applications.In this paper we focus on some research efforts directed at ...

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This work proposes a new rule pruning procedure for Ant-Miner, an Ant Colony algorithm that discovers classification rules in the context of data mining. The performance of Ant-Miner with the new pruning procedure is evaluated and compared with the performance of the original Ant-Miner across several datasets. The results show that the new pruning procedure has a mixed effect on the performance...

vehicular ad-hoc network (vanet) is an important component of intelligent transportation systems, in which vehicles are equipped with on-board computing and communication devices which enable vehicle-to-vehicle communication. consequently, with regard to larger communication due to the greater number of vehicles, stability of connectivity would be a challenging problem. clustering technique as ...

Web mining has been very crucial to any organization as it provides useful insights to business patterns. It helps the company to understand its customers better. As the web is growing in pace, so is its importance and hence it becomes all the more necessary to find useful patterns. Here in this paper, web mining using ant colony optimization has been reviewed with some of its experimental resu...