An individual-based model of task selection in honeybees

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

Volumn 5040 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 383-392

  Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA;

ACCURATE; ADAPTIVE; ENERGETIC COSTS; EUSOCIAL INSECTS; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HONEYBEE COLONIES; INDIVIDUAL-BASED; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; SWARM INTELLIGENCES; TASK PERFORMANCES; TASK SELECTIONS;

METAL CLADDING;

EID: 54249114959     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69134-1_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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