| Article ID: | iaor1995531 |
| Country: | Belgium |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 39 |
| End Page Number: | 53 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1994 |
| Journal: | Belgian Journal of Operations Research, Statistics and Computer Science |
| Authors: | Colorni Alberto, Dorigo Marco, Maniezzo Vittorio, Trubian Marco |
| Keywords: | production, heuristics, optimization |
The study of natural processes has inspired several heuristic optimization algorithms which have proved to be very effective in combinatorial optimization. The authors show how a new heuristic called