The ant colony optimization meta-heuristic (1999)
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Marco Dorigo
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Gianni Di Caro
| Venue: | in New Ideas in Optimization |
| Citations: | 252 - 22 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Dorigo99theant,
author = {Marco Dorigo and Gianni Di Caro},
title = {The ant colony optimization meta-heuristic},
booktitle = {in New Ideas in Optimization},
year = {1999},
pages = {11--32},
publisher = {McGraw-Hill}
}
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Ant algorithms are multi-agent systems in which the behavior of each single agent, called artificial ant or ant for short in the following, is inspired by the behavior of real ants. Ant algorithms are one of the most successful examples of swarm intelligent systems [3], and have been applied to many types of problems, ranging from the classical traveling salesman







