I'm looking for a .NET-Class library or .NET-Framework which implements ant colony optimization. Can you give me any links, resources, etc. about this topic.
Ant colony optimization using .NET
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Have a look at Wikipedia article. It provides a good desription of the algorithm. The algorithm is rather easy to implement based on that arcicle.
www.aco-metaheuristics.org provides some more info on subject.
I have implemented a solution to travelling salesman problen using python. It is not .NET but maybe it is some help for you.
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Have a look at this MSDN article by James McCaffrey, I've been using a modified version of it for a while and it gave me very satisfying results. The article is very clear and the code is very clean and efficient.
Konrad Rudolph has published a short tutorial on ACO's on a german programming website.
It contains a fully-working VB.NET example project (in English) solving a Traveling Salesman Problem using an ACO.