Stability and Responsiveness in a Self-Organized Living Architecture

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Garnier, Simon ^a   Murphy, Tucker ^b   Lutz, Matthew ^a   Hurme, Edward ^a   Leblanc, Simon ^a   Couzin, Iain D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL SOCIETIES; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; GENE NETWORKS; INDIVIDUAL LEVELS; LIVING ORGANISMS; PARAMETERIZED; PERIODIC FLUCTUATIONS; SELF-ORGANISED; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC INTENSITY;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ANT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECITON BURCHELLII; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WORKER (INSECT);

EID: 84876002467     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002984     Document Type: Article

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