Special Issue "Ant Algorithms"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Ruay-Shiung Chang
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, No. 1, Section 2, Dashieh Road, Shoufeng, Hualien, Taiwan
Website: http://www.csie.ndhu.edu.tw/~rschang
E-Mail: rschang@mail.ndhu.edu.tw
Phone: +886 3 8634016
Fax: +886 3 8634010
Interests: wireless networks; sensor networks; internet; cloud computing

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Sheng-Lung Peng
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, No. 1, Section 2, Dashieh Road, Shoufeng, Hualien, Taiwan
Website: http://gba.csie.ndhu.edu.tw/english/english.html
E-Mail: slpeng@mail.ndhu.edu.tw
Phone: +886 3 8634026
Fax: +886 3 8634010
Interests: graph algorithms; bioinformatics

It is interesting to know how a group of ants can locate a relatively short path between their food in a distant place and their nets. Of course we now know that a substance called pheromone that ants emit play an important role.
But can computer simulate ants' behavior and use this path finding technique to solve problems in other disciplines? Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm (abbreviated Ant Algorithm) is the research that pursues problem solution in this direction.

In this special issue of "Ant Algorithm", we seek original research or practical application results in the area of Ant Colony Optimization.

Acceptable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Theoretical analysis of ACO algorithms
• Applications to NP-complete problems
• Relations between ACO and other swarm intelligence algorithms
• Limitations of ACO algorithms
• Practical real-life applications of ACO algorithms

Prof. Dr. Ruay-Shiung Chang
Prof. Dr. Sheng-Lung Peng
Guest Editors

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• ant algorithm
• combinatorial optimization algorithm
• swarm intelligence
• ant colony
• ant heuristics