Active random walkers simulate trunk trail formation by ants

BioSystems

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 153-166

  Schweitzer, Frank ^a,b   Lao, Kenneth ^a   Family, Fereydoon ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foraging patters; Self organizing systems; Trail formation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; ROBOTICS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ANT; CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION; FORAGING PATTERN; SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEM; TRAIL FORMATION;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0030620045     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(96)01670-X     Document Type: Article

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