Everything about Colony
Territory governed by another country
A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule, which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their metropole. This separated rule was often organized into colonial empires, with their metropoles at their centers, making colonies neither annexed or even integrated territories, nor client states. Particularly new imperialism and its colonialism advanced this separated rule and its lasting coloniality. Wikipedia →
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- Pick up a classic book: The Martian ChroniclesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agentsCited 9,191 times
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📖 Definitions
Noun A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area.
Noun A group of people who settle an area and maintain ties to their country of origin.
Noun A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy.
Noun A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents
A powerful and efficient algorithm for numerical function optimization: artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm
Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem
Ant colony optimization
Efficient presentation of soluble antigen by cultured human dendritic cells is maintained by granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor plus interleukin 4 and downregulated by tumor necrosis factor alpha.
On the performance of artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm
Generation of large numbers of dendritic cells from mouse bone marrow cultures supplemented with granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor.
Vaccination with irradiated tumor cells engineered to secrete murine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor stimulates potent, specific, and long-lasting anti-tumor immunity.
🆕 Influential since 2022
Modified adaptive ant colony optimization algorithm and its application for solving path planning of mobile robot
Coverage path planning of heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles based on ant colony system
Design optimization of a stand-alone green energy system of university campus based on Jaya-Harmony Search and Ant Colony Optimization algorithms approaches
Multi-Objective Task Scheduling Optimization for Load Balancing in Cloud Computing Environment Using Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm With Reinforcement Learning
A Bilevel Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Capacitated Electric Vehicle Routing Problem
📚 Books worth reading
The Martian ChroniclesRay Bradbury · 1950
The heart of the matterGraham Greene · 1948
Damnés de la terreFrantz Fanon, Frantz Fanon · 1961
The Naked SunIsaac Asimov · 1954
The Stars, Like DustIsaac Asimov · 1951
Publications. I.F. Calendars, etc. Calendars of State Papers. d. 1Public Record Office · 1860
Red MarsKim Stanley Robinson · 1992
DragonsdawnAnne McCaffrey · 1988
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🔗 Related topics
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