A-Bees see: A simulation to assess social bee visual attention during complex search tasks

Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 276-283

  Bukovac, Zoe ^a   Dorin, Alan ^a   Dyer, Adrian G ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; COMPLEX SEARCHES; ENERGY; LEARN+; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; SEARCH TASKS; SINGLE ELEMENT; TARGET DENSITY; VISUAL ATTENTION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85113306232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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