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Ants' stigmergic behaviour in finding the shortest route between food and nest [49].  

Ants' stigmergic behaviour in finding the shortest route between food and nest [49].  

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Nature has always been a rich inspirational source over the ages, with much still to learn from and discover about. Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a relatively new and potentially promising branch of Artificial Intelligence that is used to model the collective intelligent behavior of social swarms in nature. This technical report provides a general int...

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... that happened to pick the shortest route to food will be the fastest to return to the nest, and will reinforce this shortest route by depositing food trail pheromone on their way back to the nest. This route will gradually attract other ants to follow, and as more ants follow the route, it becomes more attractive to other ants as shown in Figure 1. This autocatalytic or positive feedback process is an example of a self- organizing behaviour of ants in which the probability of an ant's choosing a route increases as the count of ants that already passed by that route increases. ...

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