TY - GEN AU - Cherry Ahmed Amir AU - Amr Badr , AU - Ibrahim Farag , TI - An evolutionary analysis of ant colony optimization / PY - 2005/// CY - Cairo : PB - Cherry Ahmed Amir , KW - Ant colony optimization KW - Fuzzy controllers KW - Genetic algorithms N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Computers and Information - Department Of Computer Science; Issued also as CD N2 - Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a meta - heuristic which uses ideas from nature to find solutions to combinatorial optimization problems , The parameter settings of the ACO algorithm determine the behavior of each ant and are critical for fast convergence to near optimal solutions of a given problem instance , The parameter settings differ from one application to another and they also differ amongst different sizes of the sam application ER -