How to do training of the Ant Colony used for classification?

1. Which artificial intelligence technique tries to model how an ant colony works?
2. Is ant colony a genetic algorithm?

Which artificial intelligence technique tries to model how an ant colony works?

ACO, developed by Marco Dorigo in 1992 (Dorigo, 1992), was the first swarm intelligence-based algorithm. In essence, ACO mimics the foraging behavior of social ants in a colony, and pheromone is used for simulating the local interactions and communications among ants.

Is ant colony a genetic algorithm?

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) were introduced by Holland as a computational analogy of adaptive systems. GAs are search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and natural genetics. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic inspired by the foraging behavior of ant colonies.