## 4 Proposed Algorithm (NCRA-DP-ACO)
### Pheromone Management
#### 4.2.7 Algorithm
and A.M.B. ; Software, A.M.B. ; Validation, A.M.B. ; Formal analysis, A.M.B. ; Resources, A.S.Z. ; Writing--original draft, A.M.B. ; Writing--review & editing, A.S.Z. ; Visualization, A.M.B. ; Supervision, A.S.Z. ; Project administration, A.S.Z. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This research received no external funding. The data presented in this study are contained within the article. The base simulation framework, CloudSimPlus, is publicly available on GitHub at [[https://github.com/cloudsimplus](https://github.com/cloudsimplus)]([https://github.com/cloudsimplus](https://github.com/cloudsimplus)). Additional modifications developed for the proposed ACO-based placement mechanism are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. The authors would like to acknowledge the use of ChatGPT GPT-4o to edit and polish the writing of the final manuscript. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. ## References

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