Title : 
Current Status of Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm Applications
         
        
            Author : 
Wu, Qinghong ; Ma, Zongmin ; Zhang, Ying
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Northeastern Univ., Shenyang, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
As a novel evolutionary computation technology, swarm intelligence is now becoming a new research hotspot. As a representative method of swarm intelligence, ant colony optimization (ACO) is a novel simulated evolutionary algorithm which was proposed first by M. Dorigo and has been applied in many fields. The current status of ACO applications is given in this paper.
         
        
            Keywords : 
evolutionary computation; ant colony optimization algorithm application; evolutionary computation technology; simulated evolutionary algorithm; swarm intelligence; ACO; TSP; swarm intelligence;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM), 2010 International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Sanya
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-8438-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/WISM.2010.102