Collective effects in traffic on bi-directional ant trails

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 279-285

  John, Alexander ^a   Schadschneider, Andreas ^a   Chowdhury, Debashish ^b   Nishinari, Katsuhiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ant trails; Cellular automata; Collective effects; Computer simulations

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOVEMENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; DENSITY; FLOW RATE; MODEL; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 4544302148     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.06.022     Document Type: Article

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