Efficiency and task allocation in prey retrieval

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

Volumn 3141, Issue , 2004, Pages 274-289

  Labella, Thomas H ^a   Dorigo, Marco ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; ROBOTS;

ADAPTATION MECHANISM; COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS; CONFLICT RESOLUTION; GROUP EFFICIENCY; SCIENTIFIC ISSUES; TASK ALLOCATION; TASK COORDINATION; TEST APPLICATIONS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 35048821591     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-27835-1_21     Document Type: Article

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