Independence and interdependence in collective decision making: An agent-based model of nest-site choice by honeybee swarms

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1518, 2009, Pages 755-762

  List, Christian ^a   Elsholtz, Christian ^b   Seeley, Thomas D ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Condorcet's jury theorem; Group decision making; Honeybees; Information pooling; Nest site choice

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HONEYBEE; NEST SITE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 60349097781     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0277     Document Type: Article

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