Unified strategy for intensification and diversification balance in ACO metaheuristic

This intensification and diversification in Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is the search strategy to achieve a trade-off between learning a new search experience (exploration) and earning from the previous experience (exploitation). The automation between the two processes is maintained using reactive search. However, existing works in ACO were limited either to the management of pheromone memory or to the adaptation of few parameters. This paper...