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Dorigo, M., Birattari, M. (2017). Ant Colony Optimization. In: Sammut, C., Webb, G.I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7687-1_22
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