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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id>
<journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group>
<issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn>
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<publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFO1064</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2015.61</article-id>
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<article-title>A Unifying Survey of Agent-Based Approaches for Equality-Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem</article-title>
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<name><surname>Pintea</surname><given-names>Camelia-M.</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:dr.camelia.pintea@ieee.org">dr.camelia.pintea@ieee.org</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/>
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<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Technical University Cluj Napoca, Faculty of Sciences, 76 Victoriei, 430122 Baia-Mare, Romania</aff>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>509</fpage><lpage>522</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>11</month> <year>2013</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>09</month> <year>2014</year></date></history>
<permissions><copyright-statement>Vilnius University</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2015</copyright-year></permissions>
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<p>The <italic>Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem</italic> is one of a well known complex combinatorial optimization problems. <italic>Equality-Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem</italic> is a particular case of it. The main objective of the problem it is to find a minimum cost tour passing through exactly one node from each cluster of a large-scale undirected graph. Multi-agent approaches are successfully used nowadays for solving real life complex problems. The aim of the current paper is to illustrate some agent-based algorithms, including particular ant-based models and virtual robots-agents with specific properties for solving <italic>Equality-Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem</italic>.</p>
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<label>Keywords</label>
<kwd>combinatorial optimization</kwd>
<kwd>multi-agent system</kwd>
<kwd>pattern recognition</kwd>
<kwd>ant colony optimization</kwd>
<kwd>complex systems</kwd>
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