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Ant Colony Optimization

Ant Colony Optimization is a metaheuristic optimization algorithm that belongs to the class of swarm intelligence methods and is distinguished by its emulation of the foraging behavior of ants through the probabilistic construction of solutions guided by pheromone trail deposition and reinforcement.

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Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem

Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 1997 · 8K citations

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A powerful and efficient algorithm for numerical function optimization: artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm

Derviş Karaboğa · Journal of Global Optimization · 2007 · 7.5K citations

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A practical tutorial on the use of nonparametric statistical tests as a methodology for comparing evolutionary and swarm intelligence algorithms

Joaquín Derrac, Salvador García, Daniel Molina et al. · Swarm and Evolutionary Computation · 2011 · 5.4K citations

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Ant colony optimization

Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Thomas Stützle · IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine · 2006 · 5.2K citations

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Salp Swarm Algorithm: A bio-inspired optimizer for engineering design problems

Seyedali Mirjalili, Seyedali Mirjalili, Amir H. Gandomi et al. · Advances in Engineering Software · 2017 · 5K citations · Full text

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  1. MD
    Marco Dorigo

    Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

    47 publications · 33.8K citations

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  2. JZ
    Jun Zhang

    Sun Yat-sen University, China

    49 publications · 4.7K citations

    31

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  3. TS
    Thomas Stützle

    Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

    38 publications · 12.1K citations

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  4. DK
    Derviş Karaboğa

    Erciyes University, Türkiye

    28 publications · 22.4K citations

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  5. LM
    Luca Maria Gambardella

    Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research, Switzerland

    27 publications · 13.3K citations

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Institutions

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  1. Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Brussels, Belgium

    44 h-index

    130 publications

    61.5K citations

  2. South China University of Technology

    Guangzhou, China

    41 h-index

    193 publications

    14.7K citations

  3. Sun Yat-sen University

    Guangzhou, China

    39 h-index

    169 publications

    11.4K citations

  4. Erciyes University

    Kayseri, Türkiye

    38 h-index

    93 publications

    42.9K citations

  5. Iran University of Science and Technology

    Tehran, Iran

    36 h-index

    132 publications

    9.2K citations

  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    33 h-index

    207 publications

    10.8K citations

  7. Huazhong University of Science and Technology

    Wuhan, China

    32 h-index

    131 publications

    7.4K citations

  8. Wuhan University

    Wuhan, China

    30 h-index

    108 publications

    5.5K citations

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  1. Applied Soft Computing

    209 publications · 23.2K citations

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  2. Expert Systems with Applications

    149 publications · 12.6K citations

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  3. IEEE Access

    228 publications · 11.9K citations

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  4. Information Sciences

    77 publications · 7.7K citations

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