Ant colony system: a cooperative learnin
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Dorigo, M.; Gambardella, L.M.
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Article
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1997
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IEEE
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English
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This paper introduces the ant colony system (ACS), a distributed algorithm that is applied to the traveling salesman problem (TSP). In the ACS, a set of cooperating agents called ants cooperate to find good solutions to TSP's. Ants cooperate using an indirect form of communication mediated by a pher