Summary:

This book provides a rigorous look at the mechanisms underlying collective behavior in social insects. The field is developing rapidly, and the book includes up-to-date research from biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, and computer graphics.

Table of Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Ant Foraging Behavior, Combinatorial Optimization, and
Routing in Communications Network
3. Division of Labor and Task Allocation
4. Cemetery Organization, Brood Sorting, Data Analysis, and
Graph Partitioning
5. Self-Organization and Templates: Application to Data
Analysis and Graph Partitioning
6. Nest Building and Self-Assembling
7. Cooperative Transport by Insects and Robots
8. Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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