Insects have long inspired humans, even before the dawn of time. There is a theory that ants inspired human agriculture. As any observant child will know, ants routinely take seeds into their nests, ...

1 Department of Computer Science, Ignatius Ajuru University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 2 Department of Computer Science, Federal University, Yenagoa, Nigeria. Adaptability and dynamicity are special ...

Ant behavior was the inspiration for the optimization technique. Image via Wiki Commons. Scientists often look to unexpected places to find inspiration for algorithms — and this is one of those ...

The shortest path problem is solved by many methods including heuristics that offer lower complexity in expense of accuracy. There are many use-cases where the lower accuracy is acceptable in return ...

Abstract: In this paper, an improved ant colony optimization (ICMPACO) algorithm based on the multi-population strategy, co-evolution mechanism, pheromone updating strategy, and pheromone diffusion ...

Evolution has led to natural algorithms that regulate collective behavior in many biological systems. Here, we investigate natural algorithms that solve the shortest path problem, a basic optimization ...

The Ant colony Optimization algorithm is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs (source). This implementation of the ACO ...