Collective decision-making based on individual discrimination capability in pre-social insects

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

Volumn 4095 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 713-724

  Amé, Jean Marc ^a   Millor, Jesus ^a   Halloy, José ^a   Sempo, Grégory ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

COLLEGIAL DECISION; PARAMETER VALUES; SOCIAL INSECTS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 33749675921     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11840541_59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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