Utilizing Virtual Crowd for Global Software Development

Table 3

Ants and their preferred direction.

Virtual crowd	Selected virtual crowd	Ants	Pheromone (value) on selected edges	Paths selection probability node/∑ (value) connected edges	Path selection probability of an ant (from starting node to last node) ∑P (pheromone on edge)	Probability pheromone P (pheromone on selected edges)/∑P (pheromones on all edges)
V1	V1, V4, V5, V8, and V9	K	4, 8, 9, 5, and 8	0.8, 0.73, 0.69, 0.71, and 0.67	3.6	0.14
V2	V2, V3, V5, V8, and V9	L	1, 2, 1, 5, and 8	0.2, 0.33, 0.25, 0.71, and 0.67	2.16	0.08
V3	V1, V3, V6, V7, and V10	M	4, 3, 3, 3, and 1	0.8, 0.27, 0.75, 0.6, and 0.2	2.62	0.10
V4	V2, V3, V6, V8, and V9	N	1, 2, 3, 2, and 8	0.2, 0.33, 0.75, 0.4, and 0.67	2.35	0.09
V5	V2, V3, V6, V7, and V9	O	1, 2, 3, 3, and 4	0.2, 0.33, 0.75, 0.6, and 0.8	2.68	0.10
V6	V1, V4, V6, V8, and V10	P	4, 8, 4, 2, and 4	0.8, 0.73, 0.31, 0.4, and 0.33	2.57	0.10
V7	V2, V4, V6, V8, and V10	Q	1, 4, 4, 2, and 4	0.2, 0.67, 0.31, 0.4, and 0.33	1.91	0.07
V8	V1, V3, V5, V7, and V9	R	4, 3, 1, 2, and 4	0.8, 0.27, 0.25, 0.29, and 0.8	2.41	0.09
V9	V1, V4, V5, V7, and V9	S	4, 8, 9, 2, and 4	0.8, 0.73, 0.69, 0.29, and 0.8	3.31	0.13
V10	V2, V3, V6, V8, and V10	T	1, 2, 3, 2, and 4	0.2, 0.33, 0.75, 0.4, and 0.33	2.01	0.08
					∑ = 25.62