| Title: | Modelling foraging ants in a dynamic and confined environment |
| Author(s): | Bandeira de Melo EB; Araujo AF; |
| Address: | "Federal University of Pernambuco, Center of Informatics, Av. Professor Luis Freire s/n, Cidade Universitaria, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. elton.bandeira@gmail.com" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.biosystems.2010.12.006 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1872-8324 (Electronic) 0303-2647 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "In social insects, the superposition of simple individual behavioral rules leads to the emergence of complex collective patterns and helps solve difficult problems inherent to surviving in hostile habitats. Modelling ant colony foraging reveals strategies arising from the insects' self-organization and helps develop of new computational strategies in order to solve complex problems. This paper presents advances in modelling ants' behavior when foraging in a confined and dynamic environment, based on experiments with the Argentine ant Linepithema humile in a relatively complex artificial network. We propose a model which overcomes the problem of stagnation observed in earlier models by taking into account additional biological aspects, by using non-linear functions for the deposit, perception and evaporation of pheromone, and by introducing new mechanisms to represent randomness and the exploratory behavior of the ants" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Ants/*physiology Behavior, Animal Choice Behavior Computer Simulation Environment Exploratory Behavior Feeding Behavior *Models, Biological Pheromones/metabolism;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineBandeira de Melo, Elton B Araujo, Aluizio F R eng Ireland 2011/01/18 Biosystems. 2011 Apr; 104(1):23-31. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2010.12.006. Epub 2011 Jan 12" |
