AntOptima
Encyclopedia
AntOptima is a company that split off from the Swiss artificial intelligence
laboratory IDSIA
, dedicated to the commercial exploitation of optimization
algorithms based on Artificial Ants
and Ant Colony Optimization. Industrial applications include task scheduling, vehicle routing
, internet
routing, as well as the management of ad-hoc networks and other systems with complex
, continually changing dynamics.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
laboratory IDSIA
IDSIA
The Swiss institute for Artificial Intelligence IDSIA was founded in 1988 by the private Dalle Molle foundation...
, dedicated to the commercial exploitation of optimization
Optimization (mathematics)
In mathematics, computational science, or management science, mathematical optimization refers to the selection of a best element from some set of available alternatives....
algorithms based on Artificial Ants
Artificial Ants
In computer science, Artificial Ants stand for multi-agent methods inspired by the behavior of real ants. The pheromone-based communication of biological ants is often the predominant paradigm used. Combinations of Artificial Ants and local search algorithms have become a method of choice for...
and Ant Colony Optimization. Industrial applications include task scheduling, vehicle routing
Vehicle routing problem
The vehicle routing problem is a combinatorial optimization and integer programming problem seeking to service a number of customers with a fleet of vehicles. Proposed by Dantzig and Ramser in 1959, VRP is an important problem in the fields of transportation, distribution and logistics...
, internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
routing, as well as the management of ad-hoc networks and other systems with complex
Complex systems
Complex systems present problems in mathematical modelling.The equations from which complex system models are developed generally derive from statistical physics, information theory and non-linear dynamics, and represent organized but unpredictable behaviors of systems of nature that are considered...
, continually changing dynamics.