"So ant algorithms have to be simple, distributed and scalable - the very qualities that we need in large engineered sitributed systems," she said.

Like an ant colony on the search for food, the algorithm screens through the molecular building blocks for components with the desired properties.

A single ant isn't very smart. But huge colonies of ants are capable of complex feats of organisation – and it's all thanks to their clever biological algorithms ...

The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is a metaheuristic nature-inspired technique for solving various combinatorial optimization problems. The shortest-path problem is an important ...