“…Detect the cluster centers of geometrical structure datasets Fun and Chen (2005) SOM and K-means Cluster analysis Chi and Yang (2006) PSO + K-means Document clustering Cui and Potok (2006) Ant cluster and GA Employed the evolutions of characteristics of a single ant of colonies of group Aranha and Iba (2006) Clustering algorithm and AIS Cluster analysis Li and Tan (2006) HEA (PSO & GA) Solving unconstrained and constrained optimization problems Yang et al (2007) PSO and GRASP Feature selection and clustering problem Marinakis et al (2007) SAKHMC Solving clustering problem Gü ngör and Ü nler (2007) Hybrid (2005) Constructing load-balanced clusters to ad hoc networks Ho and Ewe (2005) Topic discovery from document Yang et al (2005) Diagnostic system Kuo et al (2005) Kuo et al (2006) Network security model Srinov and Kurutach (2006) Highway layout planning Meng and Li (2007) Holonic manufacturing control Zhao et al (2007) Real estate early warning system Wang et al (2008) Grain distribution centers location Xiao and Zhang (2009) Intrusion alert analysis Siraj et al (2009) Medical risk profile recognition Ramos et al (2009) moving randomicity, multiple pheromone concepts, trailing pheromone, foraging pheromone, nearest neighborhood interpolation, entropy-based metrics, an ensemble of ant partitions, kernel functions, multi-ant colonies approach, method of cursory clustering, chaotic perturbation, bio-inspired spatial transition probabilities, device of memory bank, new picking and dropping probability functions, short-term memory within each agent etc. The disadvantage of the ant-based algorithm is that its result is influenced by various input data and parameters.…”