A modelling framework for understanding social insect foraging

By David J. T. Sumpter, Stephen C. Pratt. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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An agent-based model of collective nest choice by the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2005, background): “The philosophy of much of this work holds that simple individual rules can generate complex group patterns (Detrain et al. 1999; Camazine et al. 2001; Sumpter & Pratt 2003 ).”
Self-organized structures in a superorganism: do ants "behave" like molecules? (2006, background): “Therefore, non-linear models have been developed in which agents are designed to behave similarly to animal individuals [94,118]: they act in a probabilistic way, respond exclusively to the local information they receive from their nearby environment and follow simple decision rules coupled with fee”
HoPoMo : A model of honeybee intracolonial population dynamics and resource management (2007, background): “…of foraging (Schmid-Hempel et al., 1985; Seeley et al., 1991; de Vries and Biesmeijer, 1998; Gheorghe et al., 2001; Cox and Myerscough, 2003; Sumpter and Pratt, 2003; Bertram et al., 2003; Schmickl and Crailsheim, 2004b; Thenius et al., 2005), on food processing and associated queues…”
Tracking and formation control of multiple autonomous agents: A two-level consensus approach (2007, background): “In nature, the flocking of birds (Toner & Tu, 1998), schooling of fish (Hubbard, Babak, Sigurdsson, & Magnússon, 2004), and foraging of insects (Sumpter & Pratt, 2003) provide insight into the emergence of group behaviors from the coordinated actions of individuals.”
From nonlinearity to optimality: pheromone trail foraging by ants (2003, background): “These observations can be modelled mathematically using differential equations to describe the rate at which ants join and leave trails ( Sumpter & Pratt 2003 ).”