Automatic text processing
The dynamics of collective sorting robot-like ants and ant-like robots
Proceedings of the first international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
Emergent colonization and graph partitioning
SAB94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Simulation of adaptive behavior : from animals to animats 3: from animals to animats 3
Diversity and adaptation in populations of clustering ants
SAB94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Simulation of adaptive behavior : from animals to animats 3: from animals to animats 3
Grouper: a dynamic clustering interface to Web search results
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
The ant colony optimization meta-heuristic
New ideas in optimization
Bringing order to the Web: automatically categorizing search results
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
On Improving Clustering in Numerical Databases with Artificial Ants
ECAL '99 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life
Lighthouse: Showing the Way to Relevant Information
INFOVIS '00 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Vizualization 2000
Spatial metaphors for browsing large data archives
Spatial metaphors for browsing large data archives
On the performance of ant-based clustering
Design and application of hybrid intelligent systems
Ant-Based Clustering and Topographic Mapping
Artificial Life
A flocking based algorithm for document clustering analysis
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal - Special issue: Nature-inspired applications and systems
An aggregated clustering approach using multi-ant colonies algorithms
Pattern Recognition
Featureless similarities for terms clustering using tree-traversing ants
PCAR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Practical cognitive agents and robots
Color reduction based on ant colony
Pattern Recognition Letters
Aggregation pheromone density based data clustering
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A novel ant clustering algorithm based on cellular automata
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Finding groups in data: Cluster analysis with ants
Applied Soft Computing
Fuzzy Document Clustering Based on Ant Colony Algorithm
ISNN 2009 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Neural Networks: Advances in Neural Networks - Part II
Heuristic Search for Cluster Centroids: An Ant-Based Approach for FCM Initialization
ISNN 2009 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Neural Networks: Advances in Neural Networks - Part II
Ant based clustering using case based reasoning
ECC'08 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on European computing conference
Exploring ant-based algorithms for gene expression data analysis
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
An adaptive ant-based clustering algorithm with improved environment perception
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Dynamic decentralized any-time hierarchical clustering
ESOA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering self-organising systems
Examining dissimilarity scaling in ant colony approaches to data clustering
ACAL'07 Proceedings of the 3rd Australian conference on Progress in artificial life
A novel ant clustering algorithm with digraph
ICNC'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advances in Natural Computation - Volume Part II
Ant clustering embeded in cellular automata
ECAL'05 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Advances in Artificial Life
An ant-based approach to color reduction
ANTS'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
A novel ant-based clustering approach for document clustering
AIRS'06 Proceedings of the Third Asia conference on Information Retrieval Technology
Swarm intelligence clustering algorithm based on attractor
ICNC'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advances in Natural Computation - Volume Part III
MICAI'05 Proceedings of the 4th Mexican international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Host selection through collective decision
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) - Special section on formal methods in pervasive computing, pervasive adaptation, and self-adaptive systems: Models and algorithms
Data clustering and visualization using cellular automata ants
AI'06 Proceedings of the 19th Australian joint conference on Artificial Intelligence: advances in Artificial Intelligence
Fully controllable ant colony system for text data clustering
SIDE'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
Evaluating the use of clustering for automatically organising digital library collections
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
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Sorting and clustering methods inspired by the behavior of real ants are among the earliest methods in ant-based meta-heuristics. We revisit these methods in the context of a concrete application and introduce some modifications that yield significant improvements in terms of both quality and efficiency. Firstly, we re-examine their capability to simultaneously perform a combination of clustering and multi-dimensional scaling. In contrast to the assumptions made in earlier literature, our results suggest that these algorithms perform scaling only to a very limited degree. We show how to improve on this by some modifications of the algorithm and a hybridization with a simple pre-processing phase. Secondly, we discuss how the time-complexity of these algorithms can be improved. The improved algorithms are used as the core mechanism in a visual document retrieval system for world-wide web searches.