Ants marcing in an unbroken line
I remember when I was a child I used to memorize few rhymes about ants, like "The Ants Go Marching" and "Army Ants". Although it was observable that ants work together, help each other complete a task, and of course walking towards somewhere there's food, in a single unbroken line, I never thought these will inspire researchers to design a software that will determine the best route path for military tactics.
At the University of Granada in Spain, a researcher designed a simulator for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies. This software was developed in order for the armies to define the best path, considering that such path will be covered by a company, involving the security criteria (reaching their destination with the lower number of casualties) and speed (reaching their destination as quickly as possible).
This mini-simulator works by defining the settings (in the battlefields), locating the unit and their enemies, executing the algorithms and identifying the results. In addition, the software designed offers a few tools useful to analyze both the initial map and the results.
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