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High connectivity and robustness are critical requirements in distributed networks, as they ensure resilience, efficient communication, and adaptability in dynamic environments. Additionally, optimizing energy consumption is also paramount…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Azra Seyyedi , Mahdi Bohlouli , SeyedEhsan Nedaaee Oskoee

The interconnection network is a crucial subsystem in High-Performance Computing clusters and Data-centers, guaranteeing high bandwidth and low latency to the applications' communication operations. Unfortunately, congestion situations may…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jose Rocher-Gonzalez , Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo , Pedro J. Garcia , Francisco J. Quiles

Adaptive networks have the capability to pursue solutions of global stochastic optimization problems by relying only on local interactions within neighborhoods. The diffusion of information through repeated interactions allows for globally…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Adaptive networks are well-suited to perform decentralized information processing and optimization tasks and to model various types of self-organized and complex behavior encountered in nature. Adaptive networks consist of a collection of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Ali H. Sayed

Applications of ACO algorithms to obtain better solutions for combinatorial optimization problems have become very popular in recent years. In ACO algorithms, group of agents repeatedly perform well defined actions and collaborate with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-07 G. S. Raghavendra , N. Prasanna Kumar

Ant algorithms are inspired in real ants and the main idea is to create virtual ants that travel into the space of possible solution depositing virtual pheromone proportional to how good a specific solution is. This creates a autocatalytic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Bruno V. C. Martins , Gustavo Brunetto , Fernando Sato , Vitor R. Coluci , Douglas S. Galvao

Ants are known to be able to find paths of minimal length between the nest and food sources. The deposit of pheromones while they search for food and their chemotactical response to them has been proposed as a crucial element in the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-03-09 M. Vela-Pérez , M. A. Fontelos , J. J. L. Velázquez

Intelligent routing in networks has opened up many challenges in modelling and methods, over the past decade. Many techniques do exist for routing on such an environment where path determination was carried out by advertisement, position…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-07 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kavitha Sooda

Threat assessment is an important part of level 3 data fusion. Here we study a subproblem of this, worst-case risk assessment. Inspired by agent-based models used for simulation of trail formation for urban planning, we use ant colony…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Pontus Svenson , Hedvig Sidenbladh

This article presents a new algorithm which is a modified version of the elite ant system (EAS) algorithm. The new version utilizes an effective criterion for escaping from the local optimum points. In contrast to the classical EAC…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-08 Majid Yousefikhoshbakht , Farzad Didehvar , Farhad Rahmati

Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organization. As a result of this organization, ant colonies can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vitorino Ramos , Juan J. Merelo

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is renowned for its effectiveness in solving Traveling Salesman Problems, yet it faces computational challenges in CPU-based environments, particularly with large-scale instances. In response, we introduce a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Luming Yang , Tao Jiang , Ran Cheng

Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a commonly used meta-heuristic to solve complex combinatorial optimization problems like traveling salesman problem (TSP), vehicle routing problem (VRP), etc. However, classical ACO algorithms provide better…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Mrityunjay Ghosh , Nivedita Dey , Debdeep Mitra , Amlan Chakrabarti

Real-world network systems are inherently dynamic, with network topologies undergoing continuous changes over time. Previous works often focus on static networks or rely on complete prior knowledge of evolving topologies, whereas real-world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Chunyu Pan , Xizhe Zhang , Haoyu Zheng , Zhao Su , Changsheng Zhang , Weixiong Zhang

Mobile ad-hoc networks demand routing algorithms able to adapt to network topologies subject to constant change. Moreover, with the advent of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), network nodes tend not only to show increased mobility, but also…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Arliones Hoeller , Antônio Augusto Fröhlich

In this paper we propose a network aware approach for routing in graded network using Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm. ABC has been used as a good search process for optimality exploitation and exploration. The paper shows how ABC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Kavitha Sooda , T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair

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

Crafting neural network architectures manually is a formidable challenge often leading to suboptimal and inefficient structures. The pursuit of the perfect neural configuration is a complex task, prompting the need for a metaheuristic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Abdelrahman Elsaid

Recommender systems require their recommendation algorithms to be accurate, scalable and should handle very sparse training data which keep changing over time. Inspired by ant colony optimization, we propose a novel collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Yongji Wang , Xiaofeng Liao , Hu Wu , Jingzheng Wu

Army ants perform the altruism that an ant sacrifices its own well-being for the benefit of another ants. Army ants build bridges using their own bodies along the path from a food to the nest. We developed the army ant inspired social…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Takumi Ichimura , Takuya Uemoto , Akira Hara