Self-organized networks of galleries in the ant Messor sancta

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

Volumn 2463, Issue , 2002, Pages 163-175

  Buhl, Jérôme ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^b   Theraulaz, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

COLLECTIVE ADAPTATION; INDIVIDUAL BASED MODEL; PHEROMONE TRAILS; SELF-ORGANIZED NETWORKS; SELF-ORGANIZED PROCESS; SIZE AND SHAPE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84974695779     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45724-0_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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