... and algorithm theory Probabilistic analysis The feature subset selection problem refers to the task of identifying and selecting a useful subset of pattern‐representing features from a larger set of possibly redundant and irrelevant features. By removing the useless features, we can save a great amount...

... Optimal control Probabilistic analysis Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic for solving combinatorial optimization problems (Dorigo and Blum, 2005). Inspired by ants and their behavior in finding shortest paths from their nest to sources of food, the virtual ants in ACO aim at jointly...