The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is a metaheuristic nature-inspired technique for solving various combinatorial optimization problems. The shortest-path problem is an important ...

Ant-colony optimization algorithm is an evolutionary learning algorithm which could be applied to solve the complex problems.

Wenrui Zhang, Application of an Improved Ant Colony Algorithm in Coastal Tourism Route Optimization, Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 98: Recent Developments in Practices and Research on ...

Scientists found that ants and other natural systems use optimization algorithms similar to those used by engineered systems, including the Internet.

The behavior of ants forming nests and forming a route to the feeding ground is a computational problem of an algorithm that applies graph theory as an ' ant colony optimization problem '.