The main contribution of this paper lies in the manipulation of ant colony optimization technique for obtaining the order of cascaded SVM by maximizing the total probability of correct decision. When ...

As warmer months bring more outdoor activity across North Carolina, experts are warning residents to watch out for a lesser-known but potentially dangerous insect: the Asian needle ant.

Despite their tiny size, ants are able to accomplish absolutely incredible feats. They can build amazingly intricate nests, ...

There are a wide array of other ants besides carpenter ants, winter ants and fire ants – Massachusetts has plenty. Meet the ...

Groups of social animals, including humans, can make complex decisions without a single central leader. Those choices aren't always made by the majority, however.

Scientists say meat eating ants are cleaners of the savannah where dead bodies of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals are ...

Dara: This is a soldier ant, protecting the colony of the leafcutter ant. It just keeps moving. Stop moving, though. Dara, voice-over: Insects are not the perfect models because you have to wait ...

In the world of ants, order isn’t optional. These tiny insects live in colonies with millions of others, working together as a team to forage, defend their nests and care for their young. As spring ...

In fire ant colonies, a small subset of workers carrying a selfish genetic element influences their nestmates to accept additional queens that also carry this element, shifting the colony from a ...

based on the Ant Colony metaheuristic. The intensive simulations and evaluation results show that our proposal enhances the substrate provider's revenue and outperforms the related strategies found in ...