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

I am surprised nobody has mentioned the bible of ACO:

Marco Dorigo & Thomas Stützle: Ant Colony Optimization

This book is written by the author of ACO and it is highly readable. You can take it to the beach and have fun reading it. But it is also the most complete resource of all, great as a reference when implementing the thing.

You can read some excerpts on Google Books

Another great source of wisdom is the ACO Homepage

Answer 2

The best resource for these topics is Google scholar. Ive been working on Ant Colony Optimization algorithms for a while, here are some good papers:

• Ant Colony Optimization - A New Metaheuristic
• Ant Colony Optimization - Artificial Ants as a Computational Intelligence Technique

Just search for "Ant Colony" on google scholar.

Also, search for papers published by Marco Dorigo.