… the nest that have the best environmental conditions. In this chapter we concentrate on the
Ant Colony … In Section 1.5 some other ant colony inspired parallel algorithms are considered. …

… This section briefly introduces the metrics to evaluate the performance of parallel algorithms,
… [24] to solve the classification rule discovery problem with an hybrid parallel ACS. In the …

… improved ant colony optimization (ICMPACO) algorithm … algorithm, the optimization problem
is divided into several sub-problems and the ants in the population are divided into elite ants …

… novel hybrid parallel ACO algorithm, introducing parallelism … with multiple colonies that
execute the ACO algorithm in … the robustness of the parallel algorithm compared to the sequential …

… This article presented a parallel cooperative hybrid algorithm for solving traveling salesman
… the parallel cooperative hybrid algorithm (PACO-3Opt) based on ant colony optimization. …

… Many studies have found that the ant colony algorithm is … ant colony algorithm has the
advantages of strong robustness, good parallelism, and easy to be combined with other algorithms…

… cribe hybrid ant colony algorithms (HACAs) proposed for path planning in sparse graphs since
existing ant colony … In the next section, we outline our novel hybrid ant colony algorithm to …

… -graphs by our new parallel cooperating ant colony algorithm with periodic pheromone
exchange that … We propose to solve both problems with our parallel algorithm. We executed the …

… Therefore, parallel algorithms are suitable to solve this … a hybrid symbiotic organism search
(SOS) and ACO algorithm for … Results of this hybrid method showed good adaptive abilities …

… of parallel processing for the most efficient ACO algorithms on … execution of parallel
independent runs of ACO algorithms. We … the ants, ie, they are hybrid algorithms. The performance …