Distributed House-Hunting in Ant Colonies

We introduce the study of the ant colony house-hunting problem from a distributed computing perspective. When an ant colony's nest becomes unsuitable due to size constraints or damage, the colony relocates to a new nest. The task of identifying and evaluating the quality of potential new nests...

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Main Authors: Ghaffari, Mohsen, Musco, Cameron Nicholas, Radeva, Tsvetomira T., Lynch, Nancy Ann
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100843
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2197-6806
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3045-265X
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4213-9898
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1261-6681