Adaptation in natural and artificial systems
Adaptation in natural and artificial systems
An introduction to genetic algorithms
An introduction to genetic algorithms
From data mining to knowledge discovery: an overview
Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining
Ant-based load balancing in telecommunications networks
Adaptive Behavior
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
The ant colony optimization meta-heuristic
New ideas in optimization
MACS-VRPTW: a multiple ant colony system for vehicle routing problems with time windows
New ideas in optimization
Ant algorithms for discrete optimization
Artificial Life
Future Generation Computer Systems
Parallel Ant Colonies for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Proceedings of the 11 IPPS/SPDP'99 Workshops Held in Conjunction with the 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium and 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
A Study of Some Properties of Ant-Q
PPSN IV Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
Phe-Q: A Pheromone Based Q-Learning
AI '01 Proceedings of the 14th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize ACS-TSP
ANTS '02 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Ant Algorithms
Unsupervised Image Segmentation Using a Colony of Cooperating Ants
BMCV '02 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision
Edge detection using ant algorithms
Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications
Image Thresholding Using Ant Colony Optimization
CRV '06 Proceedings of the The 3rd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
A new version of the ant-miner algorithm discovering unordered rule sets
Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
An Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Learning Classification Rules
WI '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Neural Computing and Applications
AntNet: distributed stigmergetic control for communications networks
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
An improved ant colony optimisation algorithm for the 2D HP protein folding problem
AI'03 Proceedings of the 16th Canadian society for computational studies of intelligence conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
Parallel ant colony optimization for the traveling salesman problem
ANTS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Data mining with an ant colony optimization algorithm
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
An efficient hybrid approach based on PSO, ACO and k-means for cluster analysis
Applied Soft Computing
Modelling Shortest Path Search Techniques by Colonies of Cooperating Agents
ICCCI '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence. Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems
Use of MaSE methodology for designing a swarm-based multi-agent system
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology - Knowledge integration and management in autonomous systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A tree-growth based ant colony algorithm for QoS multicast routing problem
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Fuzzy sliding-mode control for ball and beam system with fuzzy ant colony optimization
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An enhanced ACO algorithm to select features for text categorization and its parallelization
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A hybrid ant colony optimization algorithm for optimal multiuser detection in DS-UWB system
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining
Optimisation of autonomous ship manoeuvres applying Ant Colony Optimisation metaheuristic
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A swarm intelligence based algorithm for qos multicast routing problem
SEMCCO'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing - Volume Part II
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Concave minimum cost network flow problems solved with a colony of ants
Journal of Heuristics
Mining association rules with single and multi-objective grammar guided ant programming
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Pheromone trail initialization with local optimal solutions in ant colony optimization
International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems
Ant colony optimisation for vehicle traffic systems: applications and challenges
International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation
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Ant algorithms are optimisation algorithms inspired by the foraging behaviour of real ants in the wild. Introduced in the early 1990s, ant algorithms aim at finding approximate solutions to optimisation problems through the use of artificial ants and their indirect communication via synthetic pheromones. The first ant algorithms and their development into the Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) metaheuristic is described herein. An overview of past and present typical applications as well as more specialised and novel applications is given. The use of ant algorithms alongside more traditional machine learning techniques to produce robust, hybrid, optimisation algorithms is addressed, with a look towards future developments in this area of study.