As one of the latter algorithms, ant colony algorithm has been used to many fields, such as: Traveling Salesman Problem, Quadratic Assignment Problem, Network Routing and Load-Balancing Problem, VLSI Design, etc.

• 摘要蚁群算法作为一种较新的进化类方法，目前已经在若干领域取得了成功的应用，诸如：旅行商问题、二次分配问题、通讯网络中的路由问题以及负载平衡问题、大规模集成电路设计等。