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At fist Multi Agent Systems (MAS) are described including the autonomous agents behavior and properties. Artificial ants are specific agents and for an overview of Ant Colony Optimization please refer to [78]. Stigmergy, introduced by Grassé [107], is shortly explained. It follows a synthesis of the steps to follow for designing a bio-inspired algorithm.
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Pintea, CM. (2014). Introduction. In: Advances in Bio-inspired Computing for Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 57. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40179-4_3
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