A Comprehensive Overview of the Applications of Artificial Life
Artificial Life
An analytic modelling approach for network routing algorithms that use "ant-like" mobile agents
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
An agent based evolutionary approach to path detection for off-road vehicle guidance
Pattern Recognition Letters - Special issue: Evolutionary computer vision and image understanding
A comprehensive review of nature inspired routing algorithms for fixed telecommunication networks
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal - Special issue: Nature-inspired applications and systems
Jumping ant routing algorithm for sensor networks
Computer Communications
International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation
Percolation analyses in a swarm based algorithm for shortest-path finding
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Modeling ant colony foraging in dynamic and confined environment
Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Analysis of AntNet routing scheme by using queueing model
Computer Communications
An ACO Inspired Strategy to Improve Jobs Scheduling in a Grid Environment
ICA3PP '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing
Achieving Self-management in a Distributed System of Autonomic BUT Social Entities
MACE '08 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE international workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments
Multicast routing for delay variation bound using a modified ant colony algorithm
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
ANT Based Routing Algorithm over a HAP Network with Integrated Services
MICAI '08 Proceedings of the 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
QoS-aware ant routing with colored pheromones in wireless mesh networks
Autonomics '08 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems
A self-generating fuzzy system with ant and particle swarm cooperative optimization
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Using Ant Colony Optimization algorithm for solving project management problems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Using artificial life techniques for distributed grid job scheduling
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Swarm intelligence based energy saving and load balancing in wireless ad hoc networks
BADS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Bio-inspired algorithms for distributed systems
How Would Ants Implement an Intelligent Route Control System?
ASMTA '09 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Applications
A Performance Comparison of Swarm Intelligence Inspired Routing Algorithms for MANETs
ICCSA '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part II
An analytic modelling approach for network routing algorithms that use "ant-like" mobile agents
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Ant colony optimization incorporated with fuzzy Q-learning for reinforcement fuzzy control
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Energy saving and load balancing in wireless ad hoc networks through ant-based routing
SPECTS'09 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer & Telecommunication Systems
A hybrid multi-path ant QoS routing algorithm for MANETs
WOCN'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks
A hybrid algorithm for the vehicle routing problem
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
RAAM: routing algorithm using ant agents for MANETS
ICACT'09 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Advanced Communication Technology - Volume 2
An efficient Ant colonies algorithm: QoS-based load balancing for routing in Wireless Mesh Networks
AsiaCSN '08 Proceedings of the Fifth IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks
A taxonomy of biologically inspired research in computer networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Ant colony optimization algorithm with mutation mechanism and its applications
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
ICUCT'06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Ubiquitous convergence technology
Designing fuzzy-rule-based systems using continuous ant-colony optimization
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
QoS multicast tree construction in IP/DWDM optical internet by bio-inspired algorithms
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Distributed routing path optimization for OBS networks based on ant colony optimization
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
QoS swarm state dependent routing for irregular traffic in telecommunication networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Optimizing discounted cash flows in project scheduling: an ant colony optimization approach
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Chemical-reaction-inspired metaheuristic for optimization
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Grid jobs scheduling: The Alienated Ant Algorithm solution
Multiagent and Grid Systems
A tree-based particle swarm optimization for multicast routing
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Agent-based load balancing routing for LEO satellite networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Using grammar induction to model adaptive behavior of networks of collaborative agents
ICGI'10 Proceedings of the 10th international colloquium conference on Grammatical inference: theoretical results and applications
SamACO: variable sampling ant colony optimization algorithm for continuous optimization
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
An optimized approach to solving ad hoc QoS routing with GPS location
ACS'06 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS international conference on Applied computer science
Swarm intelligence based routing protocol for wireless sensor networks: Survey and future directions
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Swarm Intelligence Approaches for Grid Load Balancing
Journal of Grid Computing
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Hierarchical image segmentation using ant colony and chemical computing approach
ICNC'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advances in Natural Computation - Volume Part II
Continuous function optimization using hybrid ant colony approach with orthogonal design scheme
SEAL'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning
A heuristic and distributed QoS route discovery method for mobile ad hoc networks
WAIM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in Web-Age Information Management
A hybrid ant colony optimization algorithm for optimal multiuser detection in DS-UWB system
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A framework and model for soft routing: the Markovian termite and other curious creatures
ANTS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
An orthogonal search embedded ant colony optimization approach to continuous function optimization
ANTS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
Ant agent-based qos multicast routing in networks with imprecise state information
PRIMA'06 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim international conference on Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
A novel ACO algorithm with adaptive parameter
ICIC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics - Volume Part III
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
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Solving software project scheduling problems with ant colony optimization
Computers and Operations Research
Improving peer review with ACORN: ACO algorithm for reviewer's network
ANTS'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Swarm Intelligence
Automation and Remote Control
A bio-inspired distributed algorithm to improve scheduling performance of multi-broker grids
Natural Computing: an international journal
Storage space allocation at marine container terminals using ant-based control
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An Improved Fuzzy Unequal Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network
Mobile Networks and Applications
Route discovery in cellular networks using soft computing techniques
International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms
Reinforcement learning based routing in wireless mesh networks
Wireless Networks
A genetic ant colony algorithm for routing in CPS heterogeneous network
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Ant colony optimisation for vehicle traffic systems: applications and challenges
International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation
Smart data packet ad hoc routing protocol
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Although an ant is a simple creature, collectively a colony of ants performs useful tasks such as finding the shortest path to a food source and sharing this information with other ants by depositing pheromone. In the field of ant colony optimization (ACO), models of collective intelligence of ants are transformed into useful optimization techniques that find applications in computer networking. In this survey, the problem-solving paradigm of ACO is explicated and compared to traditional routing algorithms along the issues of routing information, routing overhead and adaptivity. The contributions of this survey include 1) providing a comparison and critique of the state-of-the-art approaches for mitigating stagnation (a major problem in many ACO algorithms), 2) surveying and comparing three major research in applying ACO in routing and load-balancing, and 3) discussing new directions and identifying open problems. The approaches for mitigating stagnation discussed include: evaporation, aging, pheromone smoothing and limiting, privileged pheromone laying and pheromone-heuristic control. The survey on ACO in routing/load-balancing includes comparison and critique of ant-based control and its ramifications, AntNet and its extensions, as well as ASGA and SynthECA. Discussions on new directions include an ongoing work of the authors in applying multiple ant colony optimization in load-balancing.