A hybrid particle swarm/ant colony algorithm for the classification of hierarchical biological data
Nicholas Holden, Alex Alves Freitas · 2005
This paper proposes a hybrid PSO/ACO algorithm for hierarchical classification, where the classes to be predicted are arranged in a tree-like hierarchy. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on a challenging biological data set, involving the hierarchical functional classification of enzymes. The proposed algorithm is compared with an existing PSO for classification, which was also adapted for hierarchical classification.