Economics of specialization in honeybees: A multi-agent simulation study of honeybees

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

Volumn 5778 LNAI, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 358-366

  Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENEFITS AND COSTS; DIVISION OF LABOR; HONEYBEE COLONIES; MULTI AGENT SIMULATION; SWARM INTELLIGENT;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 79959969237     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21314-4_45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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