Ant Colony Optimization from research to business
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a paradigm inspired by real ant
colonies for designing metaheuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization
problems. The course introduces basic and advanced principles of ACO algorithms
and show how to apply them to different combinatorial optimization problems,
like tsp, vrp and scheduling. The last part discusses challenging real-life
optimization problems where ACO has been applied to
organize fleet of vehicles of increasing size from 60, to 300 up to 1200 in
different working conditions.