Making Decision in Estimating Pheromone by an Ant itself, Expressed as a Cause-Effect Loop

Rivista di Biologia - Biology Forum

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 393-422

  Kitabayashi, Nobuhide ^a   Gunji, Yukio Pegio ^a  

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Author keywords

Ant; Decision making; Hierarchical structure; Pheromone; Self organization

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LASIUS NIGER;

EID: 0005181042     PISSN: 22822593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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