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What is Ant Colony Algorithm

Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy
Ant colony algorithms follow the behavioural pattern of real ants in nature which travel across various paths marking them with pheromone while seeking for food. These kinds of algorithms are used to solve many NP-hard problems including routing, assignment, and scheduling.
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Efficient Service Task Assignment in Grid Computing Environments
Angelos Michalas (Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Kastoria, Greece) and Malamati Louta (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-611-7.ch104
Abstract
The availability of powerful computers and highspeed network technologies is changing the way computers are used. These technology enhancements led to the possibility of using distributed computers as a single, unified computing resource, leading to what is popularly known as Grid computing (Foster, 2001). The term Grid is adopted from the power Grid which supplies transparent access to electric power regardless of its source. Cloud computing, scalable computing, global computing, internet computing, and more recently peer-to-peer computing are well known names describing the Grid technology in distributed systems.
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