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AISB
1995
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
The Ant Colony Metaphor for Searching Continuous Design Spaces
This paper describes a form of dynamical computational system--4he ant colony---and presents an ant colony model for continuous space optimisation problems. The ant colony metapho...
George Bilchev, Ian C. Parmee
FGCS
2000
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Ant algorithms and stigmergy
Ant colonies, and more generally social insect societies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organiz...
Marco Dorigo, Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz
RAS
2000
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Cooperative transport by ants and robots
In several species of ants, workers cooperate to retrieve large prey. Usually, one ant finds a prey item, tries to move it, and when unsuccessful for some time, recruits nestmates...
C. Ronald Kube, Eric Bonabeau
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DAM
2002
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Complexity of Langton's ant
The virtual ant introduced by Langton [Physica D 22 (1986) 120] has an interesting behavior, which has been studied in several contexts. Here we give a construction to calculate a...
Anahí Gajardo, Andrés Moreira, Eric ...
ICML
1995
IEEE
16 years 14 days ago
Ant-Q: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem
In this paper we introduce Ant-Q, a family of algorithms which present many similarities with Q-learning (Watkins, 1989), and which we apply to the solution of symmetric and asymm...
Luca Maria Gambardella, Marco Dorigo