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We present CGO-AS, a generalized Ant System (AS) implemented in the framework of Cooperative Group Optimization (CGO), to show the leveraged optimization with a mixed individual and social learning. Ant colony is a simple yet efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Xiao-Feng Xie , Zun-Jing Wang

Many ant species employ distributed population density estimation in applications ranging from quorum sensing [Pra05], to task allocation [Gor99], to appraisal of enemy colony strength [Ada90]. It has been shown that ants estimate density…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Cameron Musco , Hsin-Hao Su , Nancy Lynch

Hand-crafting effective and efficient structures for recurrent neural networks (RNNs) is a difficult, expensive, and time-consuming process. To address this challenge, we propose a novel neuro-evolution algorithm based on ant colony…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 AbdElRahman A. ElSaid , Alexander G. Ororbia , Travis J. Desell

Understanding the complex dynamics of communities of software developers requires a view of such organizations as a network of interacting agents involving both goals and constraints. Beyond their special features, these systems display…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergi Valverde , Guy Theraulaz , Jacques Gautrais , Vincent Fourcassie , Ricard V. Sole

Swarm Intelligence algorithms have gained significant attention in recent years as a means of solving complex and non-deterministic problems. These algorithms are inspired by the collective behavior of natural creatures, and they simulate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Amirhossein Mohammadi , Sara Hajiaghajani , Mohammad Bahrani

Positioning data offer a remarkable source of information to analyze crowds urban dynamics. However, discovering urban activity patterns from the emergent behavior of crowds involves complex system modeling. An alternative approach is to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Antonio L. Alfeo , Mario G. C. A. Cimino , Sara Egidi , Bruno Lepri , Alex Pentland , Gigliola Vaglini

Quorum sensing is a decentralized biological process, through which a community of cells with no global awareness coordinate their functional behaviors based solely on cell-medium interactions and local decisions. This paper draws…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-08 Feng Tan , Jean-Jacques Slotine

The spontaneous organization of collective activities in animal groups and societies has attracted a considerable amount of attention over the last decade. This kind of coordination often permits group-living species to achieve collective…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-05-20 Mehdi Moussaid , Simon Garnier , Guy Theraulaz , Dirk Helbing

Given the rapid proliferation of advanced information technologies, including the Internet, modern humans can easily access vast amount of socially transmitted information. Intuitively, this situation is isomorphic to some eusocial insects…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Wataru Toyokawa , Hye-rin Kim , Tatsuya Kameda

Clustering in stationary and nonstationary settings, where data distributions remain static or evolve over time, requires models that can adapt to distributional shifts while preserving previously learned cluster structures. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Naoki Masuyama , Yuichiro Toda , Yusuke Nojima , Hisao Ishibuchi

Aggregation is a common behavior by which groups of organisms arrange into cohesive groups. Whether suspended in the air (like honey bee clusters), built on the ground (such as army ant bridges), or immersed in water (such as sludge worm…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-23 O. Shishkov , O. Peleg

Colonies of ants are systems of interacting living organisms in which interactions between individuals and their environment can produce a reliable performance of a complex tasks without the need for centralised control. Particularly…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Miriam Malíčková , Christian Yates , Katarína Boďová

In this paper, thinking over characteristics of ant colony optimization Algorithm, taking into account the characteristics of cloud computing, combined with clonal selection algorithm (CSA) global optimum advantage of the convergence of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Jianbiao Lin , Yukun Zhong , Xiaowei Lin , Hui Lin , Qiang Zeng

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

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

Coordinating robotic swarms in dynamic and communication-constrained environments remains a fundamental challenge for collective intelligence. This paper presents a novel framework for event-triggered organization, designed to achieve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Fidel Aznar , Mar Pujol , Álvaro Díez

Collaboration is a fundamental and essential characteristic of many complex systems, ranging from ant colonies to human societies. Each component within a complex system interacts with others, even at a distance, to accomplish a given task.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mehdi Bakhshipoor , Yousef Azizi , Seyed Ehsan Nedaaee Oskoee

A recently proposed stochastic cellular automaton model ({\it J. Phys. A 35, L573 (2002)}), motivated by the motions of ants in a trail, is investigated in detail in this paper. The flux of ants in this model is sensitive to the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Katsuhiro Nishinari , Debashish Chowdhury , Andreas Schadschneider

The swarm intelligence of animals is a natural paradigm to apply to optimization problems. Ant colony, bee colony, firefly and bat algorithms are amongst those that have been demonstrated to efficiently to optimize complex constraints. This…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Videh Seksaria

Despite the remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in text understanding and generation, their potential for text clustering tasks remains underexplored. We observed that powerful closed-source LLMs provide good quality…