Marco Dorigo
Marco Dorigo studies optimisation methods inspired by how ant colonies coordinate their behaviour. Dorigo introduced Ant System in his 1992 doctoral thesis. At Politecnico di Milano, Dorigo, Alberto Colorni and Vittorio Maniezzo researched Ant System and applied it to travelling salesman and quadratic assignment problems. From 1995, Dorigo, Luca Gambardella and Thomas Stützle worked on extended Ant System variants. Dorigo and Gambardella proposed Ant Colony System.
- Now at
- Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Works
- 630
- Citations
- 91,228
- h-index
- 103
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1992
Ant System doctoral research
Dorigo introduced Ant System in his 1992 doctoral thesis. At Politecnico di Milano, Dorigo, Alberto Colorni and Vittorio Maniezzo researched Ant System and applied it to travelling salesman and quadratic assignment problems.
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1995 onward
Extensions of Ant System
From 1995, Dorigo, Luca Gambardella and Thomas Stützle worked on extended Ant System variants. Dorigo and Gambardella proposed Ant Colony System.
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1999
An optimisation framework
Dorigo, Gianni Di Caro, and Gambardella defined the ant colony optimisation metaheuristic in 1999. The framework concerns artificial systems inspired by ants for solving discrete optimisation problems.
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2004
Ant Colony Optimization book
Dorigo and Stützle co-authored Ant Colony Optimization in 2004. The book surveys the approach and its applications.
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2015
Research recognition
AAAI elected Marco Dorigo as a Fellow in 2015.
Sources and credits
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