Analysing honeybees' division of labour in broodcare by a multi-agent model

Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 529-536

  Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SIGNALS; HONEYBEE COLONIES; MULTI-AGENT MODEL; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; STORAGE AREA;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; NURSING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 67650506619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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