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With the rapid development of the logistics industry, the path planning of logistics vehicles has become increasingly complex, requiring consideration of multiple constraints such as time windows, task sequencing, and motion smoothness.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Haopeng Zhao , Zhichao Ma , Lipeng Liu , Yang Wang , Zheyu Zhang , Hao Liu

Nutritional regulation by ants emerges from a distributed process: food is collected by a small fraction of workers, stored within the crops of individuals, and spreads via local ant-to-ant interactions. The precise individual level…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-26 Efrat Greenwald , Lior Baltiansky , Ofer Feinerman

Coverage Path Planning (CPP) aims at finding an optimal path that covers the whole given space. Due to the NP-hard nature, CPP remains a challenging problem. Bio-inspired algorithms such as Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) have been exploited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Christopher Carr , Peng Wang

The state-of-art of the technology focuses on data processing to deal with massive amount of data. Cloud computing is an emerging technology, which enables one to accomplish the aforementioned objective, leading towards improved business…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-01 K. S. Rashmi , V. Suma , M. Vaidehi

This paper introduces AntNet, a novel approach to the adaptive learning of routing tables in communications networks. AntNet is a distributed, mobile agents based Monte Carlo system that was inspired by recent work on the ant colony…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 G. Di Caro , M. Dorigo

The paper presents an ant colony optimization metaheuristic for collaborative planning. Collaborative planning is used to coordinate individual plans of self-interested decision makers with private information in order to increase the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Tobias Buer , Jörg Homberger , Hermann Gehring

Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a dynamic multihop wireless network which is established by a set of mobile nodes on a shared wireless channel. One of the major issues in MANET is routing due to the mobility of the nodes. Routing means the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Bibhas Roy , Suman Banik , Parthi Dey , Sugata Sanyal , Nabendu Chaki

Timetabling is a problem faced in all higher education institutions. The International Timetabling Competition (ITC) has published a dataset that can be used to test the quality of methods used to solve this problem. A number of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Patrick Kenekayoro , Godswill Zipamone

This paper presents a new swarm intelligence-based approach to deal with the cooperative path planning problem of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which is essential for the automatic inspection of infrastructure. The approach uses a 3D…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Duy Nam Bui , Thuy Ngan Duong , Manh Duong Phung

This article presents a unique design for a parser using the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm. The paper implements the intuitive thought process of human mind through the activities of artificial ants. The scheme presented here uses a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Deepyaman Maiti , Ayan Acharya , Amit Konar , Janarthanan Ramadoss

Amidst the era of networking, the e-commerce sector has undergone notable expansion, notably with the advent of Cross-border E-commerce (CBEC) in recent times. This growth trend persists, necessitating robust logistical frameworks to…

General Economics · Economics 2024-02-27 Lynn Huang

During the last years several ant-based techniques were involved to solve hard and complex optimization problems. The current paper is a short study about the influence of artificial ant species in solving optimization problems. There are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Camelia-M. Pintea

The Thief Orienteering Problem (ThOP) is a multi-component problem that combines features of two classic combinatorial optimization problems: Orienteering Problem and Knapsack Problem. The ThOP is challenging due to the given time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Jonatas B. C. Chagas , Markus Wagner

Fog computing is an emerging distributed computing model for the Internet of Things (IoT). It extends computing and caching functions to the edge of wireless networks. Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide adequate support for fog…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Shuaijun Liu , Jiaying Yin , Zishu Zeng , Jingjin Wu

In an era where sustainability is becoming increasingly crucial, we introduce a new Carbon-Aware Ant Colony System (CAACS) Algorithm that addresses the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem (GTSP) while minimizing carbon emissions. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Marina Lin , Laura P. Schaposnik

This paper research review Ant colony optimization (ACO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA), both are two powerful meta-heuristics. This paper explains some major defects of these two algorithm at first then proposes a new model for ACO in which,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Hassan Ismkhan

Low level classification extracts features from the elements, i.e. physical to use them to train a model for a later classification. High level classification uses high level features, the existent patterns, relationship between the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Josimar E. Chire-Saire

In this paper we introduce a new ant-based method that takes advantage of the cooperative self-organization of Ant Colony Systems to create a naturally inspired clustering and pattern recognition method. The approach considers each data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-03-19 C. Fernandes , A. M. Mora , J. J. Merelo , V. Ramos , J. L. J. Laredo

We implement AntClust, a clustering algorithm based on the chemical recognition system of ants and use it to cluster images of cars. We will give a short recap summary of the main working principles of the algorithm as devised by the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Winfried Gero Oed , Parisa Memarmoshrefi

In this paper, a novel swarm intelligent algorithm is proposed called ant nesting algorithm (ANA). The algorithm is inspired by Leptothorax ants and mimics the behavior of ants searching for positions to deposit grains while building a new…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Deeam Najmadeen Hama Rashid , Tarik A. Rashid , Seyedali Mirjalili