Brood comb construction by the stingless bees Tetragonula hockingsi and Tetragonula carbonaria

Swarm Intelligence

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 151-176

  Brito, Rute M ^a   Schaerf, Timothy M ^b   Myerscough, Mary R ^b   Heard, Tim A ^c   Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brood cell; Nest construction; Stigmergic algorithm

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; BUILDING PROCESS; CELL LENGTHS; CLUSTER OF CELLS; CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; IN-VIVO;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION; CYTOLOGY;

CELLS;

EID: 84861232313     PISSN: 19353812     EISSN: 19353820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11721-012-0068-1     Document Type: Article

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