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Title:

Ants Systems, A State Of The Art Overview: Applications To

Industrial Plants Problems

Authors:

Francesco Longo, Giovanni Mirabelli, Sabrina Rondinelli

Published in:

 

(2009).ECMS 2009 Proceedings edited by J. Otamendi, A. Bargiela, J. L. Montes, L. M. Doncel Pedrera. European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2009 

 

ISBN: 978-0-9553018-8-9

 

23rd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Madrid, June 9-12, 2009

Citation format:

Longo, F., Mirabelli, G., & Rondinelli, S. (2009). Ants Systems, A State Of The Art Overview: Applications To Industrial Plants Problems. ECMS 2009 Proceedings edited by J. Otamendi, A. Bargiela, J. L. Montes, L. M. Doncel Pedrera (pp. 421-429). European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2009-0421-0429

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2009-0421-0429

Abstract:

This paper presents a state of the art overview on Ants Systems. Initially the work proposes the fundamental concepts of Ants Theory and offers a description of the main algorithms (based on Ants Theory) and the respective fields of application. Among different fields of application, the paper focuses on industrial plants scheduling problems in open shop, flow shop and job shop systems. The last part of paper discusses about the possibility to combine Modeling & Simulation and Ant Theory to develop advanced real-time support tools for the job shop scheduling problem.

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