Where can I learn more about “ant colony” optimizations?

Question

I\'ve been reading things here and there for a while now about using an \"ant colony\" model as a heuristic approach to optimizing various types of algorithms. However, I have

Answer 1

On the off chance that you know German (yes, sorry …), a friend and I have written an introduction with code about this subject which I myself find quite passable. The text and code uses the example of TSP to introduce the concept.

Even if you don't know German, take a look at the code and the formulas in the text, this might still serve.