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Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) studies artificial systems that take inspiration from the behavior of real ant colonies and which are used to solve discrete optimization problems. Recently (1999), the Ant Colony Optimization metaheuristic has been defined by Dorigo, Di Caro and Gambardella (see papers on the ACO metaheuristic). The first ACO system was introduced by Marco Dorigo in his Ph.D.