A tunable algorithm for collective decision-making

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 43, 2006, Pages 15906-15910

  Pratt, Stephen C ^a,b   Sumpter, David J T ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological complexity; Plasticity; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEAMWORK; TEMNOTHORAX CURVISPINOSUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANTS; DECISION MAKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

FORMICIDAE; TEMNOTHORAX CURVISPINOSUS;

EID: 33750491232     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604801103     Document Type: Article

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