The organization of work in social insect colonies

By Deborah M. Gordon. 1996

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RODE: Learning Roles to Decompose Multi-Agent Tasks (2020, background): “Many natural systems feature emergent roles, such as ants (Gordon, 1996), bees (Jeanson et al., 2005), and humans (Butler, 2012).”
ROMA: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Emergent Roles (2020, background): “The emergence of role has been documented in many natural systems, such as bees (Jeanson et al., 2005), ants (Gordon, 1996), and humans (Butler, 2012).”
Individual and collective foraging decisions: a field study of worker recruitment in the gypsy ant Aphaenogaster senilis (2009, background): “Within a colony, the allocation of foraging tasks operates without any central or hierarchical control, which does not imply the absence of social coordination (Gordon 1996, 2007).”
Influence of colony genotypic composition on the performance of hygienic behaviour in the honeybee, Apis mellifera L. (2001, background): “As a result, colony organization and worker allocation, are important themes of behavioural studies of social insects (Wilson 1971; Oster & Wilson 1978; Gordon 1996).”
Opportunities for multiagent systems and multiagent reinforcement learning in traffic control (2009, background): “Each intersection (plus its traffic signals) behaves like a social insect that grounds its decision-making on mass recruitment mechanismsfoundinsocialinsects[ 34 ,64].Signalplansareseenastaskstobeperformedby the insect without any centralized control or task allocation mechanism.”
A swarm optimization algorithm inspired in the behavior of the social-spider (2013, methodology): “For indirect interactions, the communal web is used as a “medium of communication” which conveys important information that is available to each colony member [19].”
The biological principles of swarm intelligence (2007, background): “2003; Tschinkel, 2003, 2004), along with the dynamic task allocation between workers (Beshers and Fewell 2001; Bonabeau et al. 1998; Deneubourg et al. 1987; Gordon 1996), examples of complex and sophisticated behaviors are numerous and diverse among social insects (Bonabeau et al.”
Age polyethism in the leaf‐cutting ant Acromyrmex subterraneus brunneus Forel, 1911 (Hym., Formicidae) (2007, background): “It seems that the pattern of interactions that a worker experimented with earlier is more important than a particular message or cue transferred in each interaction (Gordon 1996).”
Life expectancy and onset of foraging in the honeybee (Apis mellifera) (2009, background): “In other words, the response threshold for workers switching from nest tasks to foraging depends on worker life expectancy and all external and/or internal factors influencing the division of labour (Gordon, 1996) move the threshold in relation to worker life expectancy but not their age.”