Ant Colony Optimization from research to business

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a paradigm inspired by real ant colonies for designing metaheuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. The course introduces basic and advanced principles of ACO algorithms and show how to apply them to different combinatorial optimization problems, like tsp, vrp and scheduling. The last part discusses challenging real-life optimization problems where ACO has been applied to organize fleet of vehicles of increasing size from 60, to 300 up to 1200 in different working conditions.