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Abstract: Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a heuristic algorithm that has been widely used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. However, determining heuristic measures and initial pheromones ...

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Ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms [1], inspired by the cooperative foraging behavior of ants, are praised for their distributed intelligence, parallelism, positive feedback, and robustness.

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This behavior has inspired algorithms used in computer science and logistics, often called ant colony optimization. These algorithms help solve problems like routing delivery trucks, scheduling ...

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