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ANT COLONY ALGORITHM

Ant Colony Optimization


ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION

 Definition:
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic optimization
algorithm inspired by the foraging behavior of ant colonies.

 Introduced by …………………. Marco Dorigo (1990s)

 ACO belongs to the class of swarm intelligence algorithms, which aim to design
intelligent multi-agent systems by mimicking the collective behavior of social
insects such as ants, termites, bees, and wasps.
BACKGROUND

 Ant Behaviour:
 prioritize community survival over individual species.

 Communicate through sound, touch, and pheromones.

 Pheromones are organic chemical compounds secreted by ants that trigger


social responses in members of the same species.
BACKGROUND

 Foraging Behavior:
 Ants search for food by leaving pheromone trails on the ground. These trails
guide other ants to the food source.
 Initially, ants move randomly in search of food, creating multiple routes from
the nest to the food. Based on the quality and quantity of food, ants carry
portions back to the nest, leaving necessary pheromone concentrations on
their return path.
 The probability of selecting a specific path by following ants depends on the
pheromone concentration and its rate of evaporation.
BACKGROUND

 ACO Principle:
 The underlying principle of ACO is to observe ant movement from their nests
to search for food along the shortest possible path.

 The algorithm mimics this process to find optimal solutions for various
optimization problems.
HOW ACO WORKS

 Initialization:
 All ants start in their nest.
 No pheromone content exists initially in the environment.

 Exploration:
 Ants begin their search with equal probability along each path.
 They move randomly, exploring multiple routes from the nest to the food
source.
HOW ACO WORKS

 Pheromone Update:
 Ants carry food back to the nest, leaving pheromone trails.
 The concentration and evaporation rate of pheromone influence the
probability of selecting a specific path by following ants.

 Path Selection:
 Ants choose paths based on pheromone concentration.
 The more pheromone a path has, the higher the probability of selection.
HOW ACO WORKS

 Iterative Improvement:
 The process continues iteratively, with ants exploring and updating
pheromone trails.

 Over time, the pheromone concentration guides ants toward better paths.
APPLICATIONS OF ACO
ACO has been successfully applied to various optimization problems,
including:
 Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP): Finding the shortest route to visit a set of
cities and return to the starting point.

 Job Scheduling: Assigning tasks to machines to minimize completion time.

 Network Routing: Finding optimal paths in communication networks.

 Vehicle Routing Problem: Optimizing delivery routes for a fleet of vehicles.


SUMMARY

In summary, ACO leverages the collective intelligence of ants to find


optimal solutions by iteratively updating pheromone trails. It is widely used in
solving combinatorial optimization problems across different domains.
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