Scientists found that ants ... design and relate them to the way ant colonies forage." The same algorithm used by Internet engineers is used by ants when they forage for food. At first, the colony ...

Harvester ants maintain complex nests built several metres underground, with an entire colony of 10,000 ... nature’s hidden algorithms before they’re gone for good. Top Design Within Reach ...

That’s why computer scientist Marco Dorigo studied the creatures’ behavior, and created his Ant Colony Optimization model ... have now applied these algorithms to a swarm of 50 autonomous ...

The idea isn't entirely new, as a probabilistic algorithm called ant colony optimization (ACO) has been known to the IT community for some time. ACO uses the concept of "swarm intelligence," the ...

This ability appears to play a role in several communal activities, particularly in the voting procedure whereby an ant colony selects ... that you want to write an algorithm to analyze an online ...

As Navlakha explains: "The goal of this work was to bring together ideas from machine learning and Internet design and relate them to the way ant colonies forage." The same algorithm used by ...