Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a novel evolutionary algorithm, derived from the foraging behavior of real ants of nature, which can find the shortest path between a food source and their nest.

• 蚁群优化算法是一种近年来才发展起来的新颖的仿生型的智能优化算法,具有正反馈、分布计算和启发性搜索等特点。