This chapter presents an overview of ant colony optimization (ACO)—a metaheuristic inspired by the behavior of real ants. Ant colony optimization was proposed by Dorigo and colleagues [1-3]…
This chapter presents an overview of ant colony optimization (ACO)—a metaheuristic inspired by the behavior of real ants. Ant colony optimization was proposed by Dorigo and colleagues [1-3] as a method for solving hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs).