The article begins by explaining why, from its establishment in 2007, the European Research Council (ERC) encouraged all researchers to engage with Open Access. Its enthusiasm for OA derives from the early recognition by ...

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Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a nature inspired algorithm for solving optimization problems and is proved to be a powerfnl tool in image processing. It works on the principle that an ant while moving leaves pheromones ...