How ants turn information into food

IEEE SSCI 2011 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - IEEE ALIFE 2011: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 178-185

  Paz Flanagan, Tatiana ^a   Letendre, Kenneth ^a   Burnside, William ^a   Fricke, G Matthew ^a   Moses, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

ant behavior; ants; foraging; information; modeling

Indexed keywords

ANT BEHAVIOR; ANTS; COLONY SIZE; FIELD STUDIES; FORAGING; FORAGING RATE; IN-FIELD; INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEED;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 80051656268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ALIFE.2011.5954650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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