 
                                                                                | 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