Swarm intelligence in animal groups: When can a collective out-perform an expert?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos V ^a   King, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENCE; LEADERSHIP; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SWARM INTELLIGENCE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78649681033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015505     Document Type: Article

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