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The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is a metaheuristic nature-inspired technique for solving various combinatorial optimization problems. The shortest-path problem is an important ...

Ant colony optimization has many applications in the real world. For example, virtual ants have help to improve vehicle and communications network routing.