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Myrmecia (ant)

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EPFL2022

Multiple nest entrances alter foraging and information transfer in ants

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The ecological success of ants relies on their ability to discover and collectively exploit available resources. In this process, the nest entrances are key locations at which foragers transfer food and information about the surrounding environment. We ass ...

ROYAL SOC2020

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Jean-Claude Bolay, Marija Cvetinovic

Due to growing social and physical transformations, contemporary cities reveal the profound necessity of proper scientific approaches that are adjusted to conditions of global complexity and dynamic patterns of development. Predominance of an overall marke ...

2017

Uncovering Latent Behaviors in Ant Colonies

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Laurent Keller, Mohamed Kafsi, Raphaël Braunschweig

Many biological systems exhibit collective behaviors that strengthen their adaptability to their environment, compared to more solitary species. Describing these behaviors is challenging yet necessary in order to understand these biological systems. We pro ...

SIAM2016

Ant Methaheuristics with Adapted Personalities for Vehicle Routing Problem

Rémy Glardon, Nicolas Zufferey, Jaime Farres

At each generation of an ant algorithm, each ant builds a solution step by step by adding an element to it. Each choice is based on the greedy force (short term profit or heuristic information) and the trail system (central memory which collects informatio ...

2015

Ant Metaheuristic with Adapted Personalities for the Vehicle Routing Problem

Rémy Glardon, Nicolas Zufferey, Jaime Farres

Springer Int Publishing Ag2015

Tracking Individuals Shows Spatial Fidelity Is a Key Regulator of Ant Social Organization

Alessandro Crespi

Ants live in organized societies with a marked division of labor among workers, but little is known about how this division of labor is generated. We used a tracking system to continuously monitor individually tagged workers in six colonies of the ant Camp ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2013

Interest modeling in games: the case of dead reckoning

Kévin Clément Huguenin

In games, the goals and interests of players are key factors in their behavior. However, techniques used by networked games to cope with infrequent updates and message loss, such as dead reckoning, estimate a player's movements based mainly on previous obs ...

Springer2013

Evolution of division of labor in artificial societies

Pawel Lichocki

Natural and artificial societies often divide the workload between specialized members. For example, an ant worker may preferentially perform one of many tasks such as brood rearing, foraging and nest maintenance. A robot from a rescue team may specialize ...

EPFL2013

Experimental Study and Modeling of Group Retrieval in Ants as an Approach to Collective Transport in Swarm Robotics Systems

Mahmut Selman Sakar

Group food retrieval in some ant species serves as a useful paradigm for multirobot collective transport strategies that are decentralized, scalable, and do not require a priori information about the payload. We present a comprehensive overview of group re ...

2011

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