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Interindividual variability in response to environmental stimuli is believed to have a major impact on collective behaviors in social insects. The present study presents a detailed investigation of the variability in individual fanning behavior underlying the collective control of nest climate...
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We introduce a simple mathematical model of regulation of division of labour in insect societies based on the notion of fixed response thresholds. Individuals with different thresholds respond differently to task-associated stimuli. Low-threshold individuals become involved at a lower level of...
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A simple model of recruitment-based foraging in ants illustrates the idea that synchronized patterns of activity can …, may help explain why bursts of synchronization have been observed in several species of ants. …
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organization of traffic flows in ants under crowded conditions has only been studied very recently. The related results suggest new … computer simulations for generalized setups, in which ants have more alternatives or the alternative ways are of different …
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In several species of ants, workers cooperate to retrieve large prey. Usually, one ant finds a prey item, tries to move … ants tries to move large prey, the ants change position and alignment until the prey can be moved toward the nest. A … of cooperative transport in ants.<p> <p> Published in Robotics and Autonomous Systems30 (2000), 85-101. …
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ability to track a changing environment) of foraging in ants is studied theoretically in the case where foraging relies on a …
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The clustering of dead bodies by ants is simulated, using a cellular automaton model, the rules of which are carefully …
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Models for the behavior of ants and pedestrians are studied in a unified way in this paper. Each ant follows pheromone … put by preceding ants, hence creating a trail on the ground, while pedestrians also try to follow others in a crowd for … average speed of the ants on their density, which can be well analyzed by the zero-range process. We also show that this …
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