蚁群算法是一种用来寻找优化路径的概率型算法。它由Marco Dorigo于1992年在他的博士论文中提出，其灵感来源于蚂蚁在寻找食物过程中发现路径的行为(The ant colony algorithm is a probabilistic algorithm used to find the optimal path. It was proposed by Marco Dorigo in his doctoral dissertation in 1992, inspired by the way ants find paths in the search for food)