Mechanisms in Social Insect Societies and their Use in Optimization. A Case Study for Trail Laying Behavior

In this paper we realize a brief review of the main social characteristics exhibited by the social insects (especially ants) that have been transferred in computer science as ideas for optimization and underline some of the approaches that scientists have used to solve real‐life problems. As well, we propose a modality to use pheromone information in the Ant System, considering the observation that biologists made, namely that the rate at which ants join and leave pheromone trails is not linear.