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1. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

   Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents

   Dorigo, Maniezzo and Colorni · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics) · 1996

   The paper proposes the ant system, a method for combinatorial optimisation inspired by ant colonies, and tests it on the travelling salesman problem and on other optimisation problems.

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   1. UncheckedIn the ant system, positive feedback speeds up finding good solutions, distributed computation avoids premature convergence, and the greedy heuristic helps early on.“Positive feedback accounts for rapid discovery of good solutions, distributed computation avoids premature convergence, and the greedy heuristic helps find acceptable solutions in the early stages of the search process.”