... species are very restricted and others are more sophisticated. 2Infra-red sensors with short-range for obstacles (10 cm). 3Direct by means of contact and indirect by means of pheromones. Inspired by such a natural process and regarding ...
... Stigmergic information is local : it can only be accessed by those insects that visit the locus in which it was ... species colonies , stigmergy refers to the deposition of pheromone by ants while they are moving . Other ants can ...
... stigmergy. If members of a species, for instance, have an inbred re- sponse to encountering a pheromone-drenched ball of mud, then any bug that deposits such a ball is unintentionally sending a message to any others that might pass by ...
... species of ants and allow complex stigmergic interactions such as attraction to the pheromone of the same species and repulsion from that of the others. These algorithms have been successfully applied to problems such as edge disjoint ...
... Stigmergic. Stigmergy is a term used in biology to describe how insects like ants can communicate by what they have left in the environment. For example, ants leaving pheromone trails is stigmergic. In stigmergy, the agents do not ...
... stigmergic communication has been observed in the foraging behaviour of many ant species , which lay a trail of pheromone , thus modifying the environment in a way that can inform other individuals of the colony about the path to follow ...
... species where females are routinely mated by more than one male. Such species have larger testes for their ... stigmergic rules come into play, involving water vapour, carbon dioxide concentration, and the presence of the queen ...
Santpal Singh Dhillon. Chapter 4 Introduction to ant routing Stigmergy ( from the Greek stigma : sting and ergon ... species [ 101 ] . The basic principle of stigmergy is simple . Traces of chemicals left in the environ- ment or ...
... stigmergic commu- nication (Grassé in Wilson 1975, 186) cf. 3theory: stigmergy theory [coined by Wilson 1975 ... species of stingless bees (Lindauer and Kerr 1958, 1960; Nedel 1960). vibrationalcommunication n. Communication by ...
... species . The complexity of aggregated behavior often depends on stigmergy . Stigmergy occurs when behaviors by individuals modify the environment while being regulated by the environment's state . Stigmergy has generally been studied ...