ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of ant colony optimization (ACO)—a metaheuristic inspired by the behavior of real ants. ACO was proposed by Dorigo et al. [1, 2, 3] as a method for solving hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs).
This chapter presents an overview of ant colony optimization (ACO)—a metaheuristic inspired by the behavior of real ants. ACO was proposed by Dorigo et al. [1, 2, 3] as a method for solving hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs).