An Upper and Lower Bound for the Convergence Time of House-Hunting in Temnothorax Ant Colonies

We study the problem of house-hunting in ant colonies, where ants reach consensus on a new nest and relocate their colony to that nest, from a distributed computing perspective. We propose a house-hunting algorithm that is biologically inspired by ants. Each ant is modeled as a probabilistic agent w...

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Published in:	Journal of computational biology Vol. 29; no. 4; p. 344
Main Authors:	Zhang, Emily, Zhao, Jiajia, Lynch, Nancy
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.04.2022
Subjects:	Animals Ants Appetitive Behavior Decision Making Nesting Behavior Social Behavior convergence time ant colony decision-making collective behavior
ISSN:	1557-8666, 1557-8666
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