@inproceedings{7159d4cc169541389543c544a809af15,
title = "A nature inspired intelligent water drop algorithm and its application for solving the set covering problem",
abstract = "The Set Covering Problem is a classic combinatorial problem which is looking for solutions to cover needs on a geographic area. In this paper, we applied new ideas to solve The Set Covering Problem. Intelligent Water Drop is a nature inspired algorithm based on water drops behavior on natural river systems and the events that change the nature of water drop and the river environment. It observes that a river can find an optimum path to its goal. The results of experiments seems to be promising with certain configurations for the instances given by OR-Library J.E. Beasley. In addition an innovation was introduced in the algorithm in order to obtain results. Also a heuristic undesirability chosen is presented in this paper.",
keywords = "Combinatorial optimization, Intelligent Water Drop, Metaheuristics, Set Covering Problem",
author = "Broderick Crawford and Ricardo Soto and Jorge C{\'o}rdova and Eduardo Olgu{\'i}n",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.; 5th Computer Science On-line Conference, CSOC 2016 ; Conference date: 27-04-2016 Through 30-04-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-33625-1_39",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319336237",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "437--447",
editor = "Radek Silhavy and Roman Senkerik and Oplatkova, {Zuzana Kominkova} and Petr Silhavy and Zdenka Prokopova",
booktitle = "Artificial Intelligence Perspectives in Intelligent Systems - Proceedings of 5th Computer Science On-line Conference, CSOC 2016",
}