کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4372659 1303071 2009 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Division of labour in ant colonies in terms of attractive fields
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Division of labour in ant colonies in terms of attractive fields
چکیده انگلیسی

In nature there exist many mechanisms giving rise to self-regulation. One such mechanism is the division of labour in insect societies. Within this work we propose a mathematical model for the allocation of tasks in ant colonies, where each of the tasks is represented by an attractive field. This can be seen as a stimulus, whose strength is inversely proportional to the distance to the task. The dynamics leading to the division of labour is therefore driven by the spatial distance of the ants to the source of information encoding the task. Assuming homogeneity among the ants, specialisation and adaptability are obtained through the introduction of learning and forgetting.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Ecological Complexity - Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages 396–402
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