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This method is based on the Ant Lion Optimizer (ALO. Firstly, chaotic mapping is adopted to initialize the population, and the quality of the initial population is improved; secondly, the Adaptive Random Wandering (ARW) method is designed to improve the solution efficiency; finally, the improved Dynamic Opposite Learning Crossover (DOLC) strategy is embedded in the generation-hopping stage of the ALO to enrich the diversity of the population and improve the optimization-seeking ability of ALO. HALO is used to optimize the scheduling scheme of fog computing tasks. The simulation experiments are conducted under different data task volumes, compared with several other task scheduling algorithms such as the original algorithm of ALO, Genetic Algorithm (GA), Whale Optimizer Algorithm (WOA) and Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA). HALO has good initial population quality, fast convergence speed, and high optimization-seeking accuracy. 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