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	بهینه‌سازی کلونی مورچگان	الگوریتم ژنتیک
حوزه	بهینه‌سازی	بهینه‌سازی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1992 (foundational thesis); 1997 (Ant Colony System formalization)	1975
پدیدآور	—	John Henry Holland
نوع	Metaheuristic — swarm intelligence	Population-based metaheuristic
منبع بنیادین	Dorigo, M. & Gambardella, L.M. (1997). Ant Colony System: A Cooperative Learning Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 1(1), 53-66.	Holland, J.H. (1975). Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. University of Michigan Press.
نام‌های دیگر	ACO, Karınca Kolonisi Optimizasyonu (ACO), ant colony system	GA, evolutionary algorithm, Genetik Algoritma — Evrimsel Optimizasyon
مرتبط	5	5
خلاصه	Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic algorithm introduced by Marco Dorigo and colleagues in the early 1990s that solves combinatorial optimisation problems by simulating the collective foraging behaviour of ants. Real ants lay pheromone trails on paths and preferentially follow stronger trails; ACO turns this positive-feedback mechanism into a search procedure that finds high-quality solutions to graph-structured problems such as the Travelling Salesman Problem, vehicle routing, and scheduling.	A genetic algorithm (GA) is a population-based metaheuristic optimization method introduced by John Henry Holland (1975) that mimics the principles of natural selection. It maintains a population of candidate solutions and iteratively improves them through selection, crossover, and mutation operators, making it especially powerful on discontinuous, non-convex, and multi-modal search spaces where classical gradient-based methods fail.