ACO-based document clustering method

Abstract

Ant systems are flexible to implement and give possibility to scale because they are based on multi agent cooperation. The aim of this publication is to show the universal character of that solution and potentiality in implementing it in wide areas of applications. The increase of demand for effective methods of large document collections management is a sufficient stimulus to place the research on the new application of ant based systems in the area of text document processing. Hitherto existing far generated ant based clustering methods are presented and briefly described at the beginning of that article. Next, the author defines the ACO (Ant Colony Optimization) meta-heuristic, which was the basis of the method developed by him. Presentation of the details of the ant based documents clustering method is the main part of publication.