Swarm-intelligent foraging in honeybees: Benefits and costs of task-partitioning and environmental fluctuations

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 251-268

  Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Thenius, Ronald ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Choice; Cross inhibition; Equal foraging distribution; Foraging; Honey bees; Nectar economics; Swarm intelligence; Task partitioning

Indexed keywords

CHOICE; CROSS-INHIBITION; EQUAL FORAGING DISTRIBUTION; FORAGING; HONEY BEE; SWARM INTELLIGENCE; TASK PARTITIONING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DECISION MAKING; FOOD PRODUCTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84857652716     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-010-0357-9     Document Type: Article

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