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Ant Colony OptimizationAnt Colony Optimization
(Past, Present and Future)(Past, Present and Future)
Oscar Montiel,* Roberto Sepúlveda and
Nataly Medina Rodríguez
ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a survey of the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
metaheuristics, the original proposals that make fl ourish this natural
computing optimization method are included, as well as other proposals
that have reported good results to the present time. Some of the included
approaches are the Simple ACO (SACO), Ant system s, Elitist Ant
systems, Ant-Q, Ant Colony systems, parallelization of AS, and others.
We also have included an application of SACO in mobile robotics. ...