How individual interactions: Control aggregation patterns in gregarious arthropods

Interaction Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 245-269

  Gautrais, Jacques ^a   Jost, Christian ^a   Jeanson, Raphael ^a   Theraulaz, Guy ^a  

^a Université de Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Autonomous lure; Blattella germanica; Distributed control; Self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646679304     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.5.2.05gau     Document Type: Article

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