Abhik Biswas is the Co-Founder and CTO at Prakat Solutions Inc, writes to bridge scientific insights with practical engineering. Nature is not merely a source of inspiration for designers and ...

Deep in the tropical rainforests of South and Central America, a remarkable feat of natural engineering takes place daily. Army ants, particularly those of the Eciton genus, construct intricate living ...

Ant behavior was the inspiration for the optimization technique. Image via Wiki Commons. Scientists often look to unexpected places to find inspiration for algorithms — and this is one of those ...

Evolution has led to natural algorithms that regulate collective behavior in many biological systems. Here, we investigate natural algorithms that solve the shortest path problem, a basic optimization ...

The Ant colony optimization is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs (from Wikipedia). The task we are solving could be ...

Ants are known as social insects that form large herds while sharing roles between queen ants, worker ants, and soldier ants. The behavior of ants forming nests and forming a route to the feeding ...

Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077 Centre for Biosystems, Neuroscience, and Nanotechnology, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong ...

In this paper, we introduce an active inference model of ant colony foraging behavior, and implement the model in a series of in silico experiments. Active inference is a multiscale approach to ...