Title : 
Combining Meta-Heuristics to Solve the Rook Problem
         
        
            Author : 
Pintea, Camelia-M ; Chira, Camelia ; Dumitrescu, D.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Fac. of Math. & Comput.-Sci., ´´Babes-Bolyai´´ Univ., Cluj-Napoca
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The combination of various meta-heuristics to solve NP-hard problems has great potential to produce good results. Ant algorithms and multi-agent system are proposed to solve a chess problem. The problem is about how to place n rooks on a chessboard so that they are all mutually non-attacking. The introduced algorithms produce reasonable results and have several advantages. A combination between the two meta-heuristics is presented and some possible crossover improvements of the proposed algorithms are suggested
         
        
            Keywords : 
computational complexity; games of skill; multi-agent systems; optimisation; NP-hard problems; ant algorithms; chess problem; meta-heuristics; multiagent system; rook problem; Ant colony optimization; Artificial intelligence; Autonomous agents; Biochemistry; Insects; Legged locomotion; Mathematics; Multiagent systems; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, 2006. SYNASC '06. Eighth International Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Timisoara
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7695-2740-X
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/SYNASC.2006.25