Aggregation behaviour as a source of collective decision in a group of cockroach-like-robots

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

Volumn 3630 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 169-178

  Garnier, Simon ^a   Jost, Christian ^a   Jeanson, Raphaël ^a   Gautrais, Jacques ^a   Asadpour, Masoud ^b   Caprari, Gilles ^b   Theraulaz, Guy ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTS;

AGGREGATION MECHANISMS; COCKROACH BLALTELLA GERMAMCA; DECISION-MAKING PROCESS; SELF-ENHANCED AGGREGATIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 33645990272     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11553090_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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