Study and Implementation of Ant Colony Algorithms This project deals with the implementation of various ant colony algorithms. Currently 3 variants have been implemented: 1. Simple ACO 2. Elitist ACO 3. Rank Based ACO Files included: output.py - script for running the three variants and displaying the output. readfiles.py - contains scripts for plotting the output for the TSP (requires matplotlib) antal.cpp - S-ACO implementation antalElitist.cpp- Elitist ACO implementation antalRank.cpp - Rank based ACO implementation Compiled on Ubuntu 12.04 with g++. Note: 1. You may run either the individual implementations or simply run the output.py script 2. TSPConstructor creates a 30 city TSP.