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Table of contents Introduction Ants Colony and Multi-agents o Traveling salesman problem o Modeling of ant colonies as a Multi-agent system o Implementation Optimizing Ants colony: An Overview Ants, Phones and Pheromones Swarm-Robotics Conclusion Bibliography Introduction Nature has always inspired scientists since time immemorial let it be machines that left the ground and took to the skies a century or so ago or small robots that mimic insect behavior. This is mainly because nature has improved on its design over millions of years and has reached a level of perfection that any humanly devised machine or plan could only dream about. Take for example the research done on social insects in the last fifty years that has shown the reasons behind an ant choosing the shortest path between its colony and the food source. Another example for such intelligence is in the case of termites building huge termite mounds with hardly any...

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