Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic inspired by the foraging behaviour of social insects. In ACO, a population of artificial agents, or “ants”, construct solutions to combinatorial ...

For the past three decades Deborah Gordon has devoted herself to studying ant colonies in the Arizona desert. Although her chosen subject – the red harvester ant – isn’t much to look at, when they ...

Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial ...