Particle flow code (PFC) is a typical discrete element method (DEM) that is commonly used to simulate the mechanical behaviour of granular materials. However, the ...

1 Department of Computer Science, Ignatius Ajuru University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 2 Department of Computer Science, Federal University, Yenagoa, Nigeria. Adaptability and dynamicity are special ...

Ant behavior was the inspiration for the optimization technique. Image via Wiki Commons. Scientists often look to unexpected places to find inspiration for algorithms — and this is one of those ...

Ants are known as social insects that form large herds while sharing roles between queen ants, worker ants, and soldier ants. The behavior of ants forming nests and forming a route to the feeding ...

Abstract: Ant colony optimization (ACO) has been applied to several NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems with considerable success while little experience is available on continuous constrained ...

Evolution has led to natural algorithms that regulate collective behavior in many biological systems. Here, we investigate natural algorithms that solve the shortest path problem, a basic optimization ...

The Ant colony Optimization algorithm is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs (source). This implementation of the ACO ...

In this paper, we introduce an active inference model of ant colony foraging behavior, and implement the model in a series of in silico experiments. Active inference is a multiscale approach to ...

//given some nodes, and some locations... test_nodes = {0: (0, 7), 1: (3, 9), 2: (12, 4), 3: (14, 11), 4: (8, 11) 5: (15, 6), 6: (6, 15), 7: (15, 9), 8: (12, 10), 9 ...