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Christian Blum
Researcher at Spanish National Research Council
Publications - 253
Citations - 13596
Christian Blum is an academic researcher from Spanish National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Metaheuristic & Ant colony optimization algorithms. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 227 publications receiving 12281 citations. Previous affiliations of Christian Blum include Ikerbasque & Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
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Hybrid Metaheuristics: An Emerging Approach to Optimization
TL;DR: This book is intended both to provide an overview of hybrid metaheuristics to novices of the field, and to provide researchers from the field with a collection of some of the most interesting recent developments.
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An Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Shop Scheduling Problems
Christian Blum,Michael Sampels +1 more
TL;DR: An ant colony optimization approach that uses a strong non-delay guidance for constructing solutions and which employs black-box local search procedures to improve the constructed solutions is developed, which is the first competitive ant colonies optimization approach for job shop scheduling instances.
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Training feed-forward neural networks with ant colony optimization: an application to pattern classification
Christian Blum,Krzysztof Socha +1 more
TL;DR: The results show that the algorithm extended is comparable to specialized algorithms for neural network training, and that it has advantages over other general purpose optimizers.
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Automated Reconstruction of Dendritic and Axonal Trees by Global Optimization with Geometric Priors
TL;DR: A novel probabilistic approach to fully automated delineation of tree structures in noisy 2D images and 3D image stacks that uses the DIADEM metric to quantitatively evaluate the topological accuracy of the reconstructions and showed that the use of the geometric regularization yields a substantial improvement.