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Ant Colony Optimization, Modifications, and Application

Pushpendra Singh

Department of Electrical EngineeringGovt. Women Engineering College, Ajmer, India

Nand K. Meena

School of Engineering and Applied ScienceAston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Jin Yang

James Watt School of EngineeringUniversity of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

CONTENTS

1.1Introduction

1.2Standard ant system

1.2.1Brief of ant colony optimization

1.2.2How does the artificial ant select the edge to travel?.

1.2.3Pseudo-code of standard ACO algorithm

1.3Modified variants of ant colony optimization

1.3.1Elitist ant systems

1.3.2Ant colony system

1.3.3Max-min ant system

1.3.4Rank based ant systems

1.3.5Continuous orthogonal ant systems

1.4Application of ACO ...

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