Context-dependent interaction leads to emergent search behavior in social aggregates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 52, 2009, Pages 22055-22060

  Torney, Colin ^a,b   Neufeld, Zoltan ^a   Couzin, Iain D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective intelligence; Cooperation; Olfactory search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 76049111885     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907929106     Document Type: Article

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