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and other areas where ants are often found, their pheromone trails can be disrupted, discouraging them from coming back.

This article focuses on MATSP and proposes a distributed ant colony system with pheromone transfer (DACS) to solve the problem. First, we formally define MATSP, in which each agent has only partial ...