Ant algorithms A species of ant could lend important clues to solving problems in telephone networks, traffic circulation and computer networks. An international team of scientists, who have been ...

For the past three decades Deborah Gordon has devoted herself to studying ant colonies in the Arizona desert. Although her chosen subject – the red harvester ant – isn’t much to look at, when they ...

Scientists found that ants and other natural systems use optimization algorithms similar to those used by engineered systems, including the Internet. These algorithms invest incrementally more ...