Group and Mass Recruitment in Ant Coloni
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Eric Bonabeau; Guy Theraulaz; Jean-Louis Deneubourg
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The influence of contact rates on the efficiency (the ability to exploit a profitable environment) and flexibility (the ability to track down a changing environment) of foraging in ants is studied theoretically in the case where foraging relies on a mixture of group and mass recruitment. It is shown