How the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm works

In this course, you will learn about combinatorial optimization problems and algorithms including the Ant Colony Optimization.

[theodoregiannilias]

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[nslover]

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[narn]

crisp and clear, everything would be easy, when there are teachers like you

[iImranAkhtar]

great work
specially the slides are too good to understand, thank you brother

[aabb]

You explained the complex ACO problem in such simple understandable way! Great job!

[Shredding]

I believe this video is very helpful, expecially for those people approaching ACO for the first time. Having said that, I have a question about ACO. The heuristic information in your example is based on the cost of the single arc. But in many application the cost of a single component is influenced by the value assumed by the other componets. For istance, consider a problem of pump scheduling in water distribution networks, the actuation of a pump in a precise time interval produce a cost that depends on the pump state (on/off) during the preceding time intervals, and it influences the costs of the subsequent time intervals. In this case, how the pheromone trails can be updated? Because the cost function depends on the whole path the ant follows and not by a single component of the path.

[mrbroom]

Very, very good explanation and numerical examples helped me a lot to understand it even more. Amazing job!

[aiml__adityaghosh]

At first I was having hard time understanding but then everything made so much sense ... that was some awesome explanation ... !!! good work man !

[tahsinilkhas]

one of the best videos about ACO I have ever seen thanks a lot

[radhika]

The content is really helpful and even the formatting of the video is very sorted. Thanks

[ahoura]

thank you for your crystal and clear description of ACO. I hope you become hero of your life

[hamedmoghaddam]

Great and subtle explanation. The numerical examples and graphics are incredibly helpful. Thank you so much!

[sbouiahmed]

I really enjoyed this clearest way to explain things and making super simple and understandable. Thank you so much. this my first sight of your course and i will stay learning here

[misterbroda]

Incredibly well explained. Especially with the visual and mathematical examples. Thank you very much Mister Mirjalili!
I took the opportunity to subscribe to some of your udemy course. I hope, later this year, I will have enough time to learn more about this and the other algorithms.

[Gauravkr]

just god level teaching .god bless u bro

[camilor]

amazing video!!! very well explained!!


Only suggestion, not trying to be rude, but some words at moments can be a tiny bit hard to understand, my suggestion is maybe type of the captions? Other than that great video!

[DrLakshmiD]

Excellent visualization and presentation. Kudos

[Senseless_Pk]

hell yeah, I think I am flying with the concept. That's how clear explanation it is !!!

[kikiyunita]

Thank you, Ali.. your video is very helpful to finish my task. I didn't know before, this algorithm can be understood in an easy way. Hope to see more of your video. Thank you

[artbyhedyeh]

Thanks a million for this video. You saved my grades