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Overview

Christian Blum is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with notable contributions across several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications, and Molecular Biology.

The scientific work of Christian Blum covers a range of topics, with an emphasis on:

  • Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research
  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Algorithms and Data Compression
  • Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Optimization and Search Problems

Their recent notable publications include:

  • "Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review," 2024, published in Physics of Life Reviews
  • "Variable Neighborhood Search for the Two-Echelon Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows," 2022, published in Applied Sciences
  • "Adding Negative Learning to Ant Colony Optimization: A Comprehensive Study," 2021, published in Mathematics
  • "Search trajectory networks: A tool for analysing and visualising the behaviour of metaheuristics," 2021, published in Applied Soft Computing
  • "Solution Merging in Matheuristics for Resource Constrained Job Scheduling," 2020, published in Algorithms

Christian Blum has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Marko Djukanović
  • Camilo Chacón Sartori
  • Mehmet Anıl Akbay
  • Günther R. Raidl
  • Jaume Reixach

The venues where Christian Blum has most often published include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • IEEE Access

Christian Blum has contributed to book publications with several publishers. Titles include:

  • "Power and Its Logic: Mastering Politics," OAPEN, 2020
  • "Construct, Merge, Solve & Adapt," Springer International Publishing, 2024
  • "Swarm Intelligence," Springer Science+Business Media, 2020

Best Publications

  • Metaheuristics in combinatorial optimization: Overview and conceptual comparison

    Christian Blum;Andrea Roli

  • Ant colony optimization theory: a survey

    Marco Dorigo;Christian Blum

  • Ant colony optimization: Introduction and recent trends

    Christian Blum

  • Hybrid metaheuristics in combinatorial optimization: A survey

    Christian Blum;Jakob Puchinger;Günther R. Raidl;Andrea Roli

  • Swarm Intelligence in Optimization

    Christian Blum;Xiaodong Li

  • The hyper-cube framework for ant colony optimization

    C. Blum;M. Dorigo

  • Beam-ACO: hybridizing ant colony optimization with beam search: an application to open shop scheduling

    Christian Blum

  • Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

    Marco Dorigo;Mauro Birattari;Christian Blum;Luca Maria Gambardella

  • Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and Applications

    Christian Blum;Daniel Merkle

  • Hybrid Metaheuristics: An Introduction

    Christian Blum;Andrea Roli

  • Hybrid Metaheuristics: An Emerging Approach to Optimization

    Christian Blum;Maria Jos Blesa Aguilera;Andrea Roli;Michael Sampels

  • An Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Shop Scheduling Problems

    Christian Blum;Michaël Sampels

  • An ant colony optimization algorithm for continuous optimization: application to feed-forward neural network training

    Krzysztof Socha;Christian Blum

  • Training feed-forward neural networks with ant colony optimization: an application to pattern classification

    C. Blum;K. Socha

  • Beam-ACO for the travelling salesman problem with time windows

    Manuel López-Ibáñez;Christian Blum

  • Automated Reconstruction of Dendritic and Axonal Trees by Global Optimization with Geometric Priors

    Engin Türetken;Germán González;Christian Blum;Pascal Fua

  • On solving the assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem via beam search

    Christian Blum;Cristobal Miralles

  • HC-ACO: The Hyper-Cube Framework for Ant Colony Optimization

    Christian Blum;Andrea Roli;Marco Dorigo

  • Ant colony optimization for FOP shop scheduling: a case study on different pheromone representations

    C. Blum;M. Sampels

  • Search bias in ant colony optimization: on the role of competition-balanced systems

    C. Blum;M. Dorigo

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Dorigo
Marco Dorigo Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jose A. Lozano
Jose A. Lozano Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
Thomas Stützle
Thomas Stützle Université Libre de Bruxelles
Manuel López-Ibáñez
Manuel López-Ibáñez University of Manchester
Manuel Lozano
Manuel Lozano University of Granada
Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar
Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar Spanish National Research Council
Martin Middendorf
Martin Middendorf Leipzig University
Mauro Birattari
Mauro Birattari Université Libre de Bruxelles
Gabriela Ochoa
Gabriela Ochoa University of Stirling

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