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Social insect colonies and ensemble machine learning methods represent two of the most successful examples of decentralized information processing in nature and computation respectively. Here we develop a rigorous mathematical framework…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Ernest Fokoué , Gregory Babbitt , Yuval Levental

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

Features selection is an essential step for successful data classification, since it reduces the data dimensionality by removing redundant features. Consequently, that minimizes the classification complexity and time in addition to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Ahmed. H. Asad , Ahmad Taher Azar , Nashwa El-Bendary , Aboul Ella Hassaanien

The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is a nature-inspired metaheuristic method used for optimization problems. Although not a machine learning method per se, ACO is often employed alongside machine learning models to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-14 G. M. Tonin , T. Pauletti , R. M. Dos Santos , V. V. França

Using elementary distributed computing techniques we suggest an explanation for two unexplained phenomena in regards to ant colonies, (a) a substantial amount of ants in an ant colony are idle, and (b) the observed low survivability of new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Yehuda Afek , Deborah M. Gordon , Moshe Sulamy

In Parts I and II of this series, we established isomorphisms between ant colony decision-making and two major families of ensemble learning: random forests (parallel, variance reduction) and boosting (sequential, bias reduction). Here we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ernest Fokoué , Gregory Babbitt , Yuval Levental

With the increasing demand and complexity of networks, factors such as balancing the load, improving the performance, reducing delay and finding optimal path between nodes in a computer network have become crucial. The traditional routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Chandana M , Sanjeev Thakur

The paper attempts to find numerical solutions of Diophantine equations, a challenging problem as there are no general methods to find solutions of such equations. It uses the metaphor of foraging habits of real ants. The ant colony…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Siby Abraham , Sugata Sanyal , Mukund Sanglikar

Many real-world optimization problems occur in environments that change dynamically or involve stochastic components. Evolutionary algorithms and other bio-inspired algorithms have been widely applied to dynamic and stochastic problems.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Vahid Roostapour , Mojgan Pourhassan , Frank Neumann

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

Back-propagation algorithm is one of the most widely used and popular techniques to optimize the feed forward neural network training. Nature inspired meta-heuristic algorithms also provide derivative-free solution to optimize complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-13 Sudarshan Nandy , Partha Pratim Sarkar , Achintya Das

This paper presents an effective algorithm for selecting cluster heads in mobile ad hoc networks using ant colony optimization. A cluster in an ad hoc network consists of a cluster head and cluster members which are at one hop away from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-29 Amritha Sampath , Tripti. C , Sabu M. Thampi

Ants are social insects. When the existing nest of an ant colony becomes uninhabitable, the hunt for a new suitable location for migration of the colony begins. Normally, multiple sites may be available as the potential new nest site.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-05-04 Smriti Pradhan , Swayamshree Patra , Debashish Chowdhury

In Part I of this series, we established a rigorous mathematical isomorphism between ant colony decision-making and random forest learning, demonstrating that variance reduction through decorrelation is a universal principle shared by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-02 Ernest Fokoué , Gregory Babbitt , Yuval Levental

There is great potential if we understand how nature functions, particularly the animals taking down from the ant to the larger animals. In this paper we will make an attempt to learn about ants colonization processing by studying their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Sunit Shantanu Digamber Fulari

This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm with a new goal-sequence domination scheme for better decision support in multi-objective optimization. The approach allows the inclusion of advanced hard/soft priority and constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 E. F. Khor , T. H. Lee , R. Sathikannan , K. C. Tan

Dimensionality reduction and clustering are often used as preliminary steps for many complex machine learning tasks. The presence of noise and outliers can deteriorate the performance of such preprocessing and therefore impair the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Abolfazl Taghribi , Kerstin Bunte , Rory Smith , Jihye Shin , Michele Mastropietro , Reynier F. Peletier , Peter Tino

Certainly, nowadays knowledge discovery or extracting knowledge from large amount of data is a desirable task in competitive businesses. Data mining is a main step in knowledge discovery process. Meanwhile frequent patterns play central…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Mohammad Nadimi Shahraki , Norwati Mustapha , Md Nasir B Sulaiman , Ali B Mamat

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

In this paper, we propose a stochastic search algorithm for solving general optimization problems with little structure. The algorithm iteratively finds high quality solutions by randomly sampling candidate solutions from a parameterized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Enlu Zhou , Jiaqiao Hu