The topological fortress of termites

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

Volumn 5151 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 165-173

  Perna, Andrea ^a,b   Jost, Christian ^a   Valverde, Sergi ^a,c   Gautrais, Jacques ^a,b   Theraulaz, Guy ^a   Kuntz, Pascale ^b  

^a Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Morphogenesys; Patterns; Social insects; Spatial networks

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SYSTEMS; MORPHOGENESYS; PATTERNS; SOCIAL INSECTS; SPATIAL NETWORKS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 58449108347     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92191-2_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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