Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial ...

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that ant colony algorithm is easy to fall into local optima and slow convergence, a multi-colony collaborative ant optimization ...

Ant behavior was the inspiration for the optimization technique. Image via Wiki Commons. Scientists often look to unexpected places to find inspiration for algorithms — and this is one of those ...

The shortest path problem is solved by many methods including heuristics that offer lower complexity in expense of accuracy. There are many use-cases where the lower accuracy is acceptable in return ...

Abstract: In this paper, an improved ant colony optimization (ICMPACO) algorithm based on the multi-population strategy, co-evolution mechanism, pheromone updating strategy, and pheromone diffusion ...

Ants are known as social insects that form large herds while sharing roles between queen ants, worker ants, and soldier ants. The behavior of ants forming nests and forming a route to the feeding ...

WSN means for Wireless Sensor Network. WSN consists of a large number of nodes which communicates together through sensing and by monitoring the physical world. There are many application of WSN. In ...

//given some nodes, and some locations... test_nodes = {0: (0, 7), 1: (3, 9), 2: (12, 4), 3: (14, 11), 4: (8, 11) 5: (15, 6), 6: (6, 15), 7: (15, 9), 8: (12, 10), 9 ...