Applications of Ant Colony Optimization and Its Variants: Case Studies and New Developments

這本書解釋了幾種螞蟻群體優化（ACO）的基本概念，並展示了它們如何應用於製造、工程設計和醫療保健等實際場景中。Marco Dorigo首次提出了ACO，並且它已被用於解決各種優化問題。本書介紹了ACO的最新發展。

Nilanjan Dey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He also holds a position of Adjunct Professor at Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Previously, he held an honorary position of Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He was awarded his PhD from Jadavpur University in 2015. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global, USA. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (SpringerNature), Data-Intensive Research (SpringerNature), Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (Elsevier). He is an associate editor of IET Image Processing and editorial board member of Complex & Intelligent Systems, Springer Nature, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier etc. He is having 35 authored booksand over 300 publications in the area of medical imaging, machine learning, computer aided diagnosis, data mining, etc. He is the Fellow of IETE and Senior member of IEEE.

Nilanjan Dey是印度加爾各答Techno International New Town的計算機科學與工程系副教授。他是英國雷丁大學的訪問學者，也是越南胡志明市Ton Duc Thang大學的兼職教授。此前，他曾擔任美國加州Global Biomedical Technologies Inc.的訪問科學家（2012-2015）。他於2015年獲得加爾各答大學的博士學位。他是美國IGI Global國際環境計算和智能期刊的主編，SpringerNature的自然啟發計算、數據密集型研究和Elsevier的健康醫療普及感應應用的系列共同編輯。他是IET Image Processing的副編輯和Springer Nature、Elsevier等期刊的編委會成員。他在醫學影像、機器學習、計算機輔助診斷、數據挖掘等領域發表了35本著作和300多篇論文。他是IETE的會士和IEEE的高級會員。