Modeling ant behavior under a variable environment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3172 LNCS, Issue , 2004, Pages 190-201

  Vittori, Karla ^a   Gautrais, Jacques ^b   Araújo, Aluizio F R ^a   Fourcassié, Vincent ^b   Theraulaz, Guy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SWARM INTELLIGENCE; ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION;

ANT BEHAVIORS; ARTIFICIAL NETWORKS; BEHAVIORAL RULES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOOD SOURCES; LOCAL DECISIONS; SHORTEST PATH; VARIABLE ENVIRONMENT;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 33645412743     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-28646-2_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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