31/01/2021 · Almost all species of social insects build or dig a shelter shared by the colony [11]. Building a nest that can host the entire colony is a real ...

04/05/2017 · Stigmergy is the universal coordination mechanism: a consensus mechanism of indirect coordination within an environment among agents or actions.

Creatures in close proximity to one another must have a reciprocal modifying behavior. The latter denotes the idea that creatures of the same species have a ...

Heylighen, 2007]. Therefore, it is plausible to assume that even very different agents, e.g. belonging to different species in an ecosystem, follow rules that ...

14/02/2024 · ... species lay pheromone trails to efficiently navigate between food sources and nests. Besides being used by social animals, stigmergy has ...

A typical task involving stigmergic self-organization is brood sorting: Many ant species sort their brood so that items at similar stages of development are ...

03/02/2022 · The time scale of pheromonal communication will depend on chemical evaporation times and vary between species and tasks. Depending on the ...

This algorithm combines the high performance of bee path-integration navigation with ant-like stig- mergic behavior in the form of landmarks. More precisely, ...

About this book. Biologists studied the behavior of social insects for a long time. After millions of years of evolution all these species have developed ...

23/06/2015 · stigmergy (Heylighen, 2006). A final component of a stigmergic ... species,. or to several different species, the more diverse patch ...