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Distributed House-Hunting in Ant Colonies
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2015
arXiv
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We introduce the study of the ant colony house-hunting problem from a distributed computing perspective. ...
Our goal is to use tools and techniques from distributed computing theory in order to gain insight into the house-hunting process. ...
In contrast, the house-hunting problem is a decision problem in which all ants must converge to the same choice. ...
arXiv:1505.03799v1
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Distributed House-Hunting in Ant Colonies
2015
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing - PODC '15
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We introduce the study of the ant colony house-hunting problem from a distributed computing perspective. ...
Our goal is to use tools and techniques from distributed computing theory in order to gain insight into the house-hunting process. ...
From a distributed computing perspective, house-hunting is closely related to the fundamental problem of consensus [12, 18] . ...
doi:10.1145/2767386.2767426
dblp:conf/podc/GhaffariMRL15
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On Optimal Decision-Making in Ant Colonies
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2014
arXiv
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Understanding such a behavior can help us design efficient distributed decision making algorithms. Marshall et al. propose a model for house-hunting in colonies of ant Temnothorax albipennis. ...
Unfortunately, their model does not achieve optimal decision-making while laboratory experiments show that, in fact, colonies usually achieve optimality during the house-hunting process. ...
As our long-term goal, we envision distributed decision-making algorithms based on our model for house-hunting in ant colonies. ...
arXiv:1408.4487v1
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A Spatially Dependent Probabilistic Model for House Hunting in Ant Colonies
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2021
arXiv
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Studying and replicating the ants' house hunting behavior will also illuminate useful distributed strategies that have evolved in nature. ...
We extend previous house-hunting models to account for a pairwise distance metric between nests, compare our results to those of real colonies, and use our results to examine the effects of house hunting ...
Nest-Quality-Dependent Parameters In actual house-hunting ant-colonies, the ants' tandemrunning and quorum sensing behavior is dependent on site quality. ...
arXiv:2106.06867v1
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The Bayesian Superorganism I: collective probability estimation
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2018
bioRxiv
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House-hunting Temnothorax ants are adept at discovering and choosing the best available nest site for their colony. ...
territory markers) in part III. ...
A recent study of T. rugatlus identified four behavioral castes in the house hunting process, with a small proportion (3-12%) of the colony being 'wandering workers' (Valentini et al., 2020) . ...
doi:10.1101/468942
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Moving targets: collective decisions and flexible choices in house-hunting ants
2007
Swarm Intelligence
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Our study confirms, in a new way, that ant colonies can be very powerful "search engines". ...
Our findings suggest that, in this context, the ants' procedures are such that they can sometimes avoid 'negative information cascades' which might lock them into a poor choice. ...
We also wish to thank Tim Kovacs and the Ant Lab at Bristol for very helpful discussion. We express our gratitude to two anonymous reviewers for exceptionally insightful and helpful comments. ...
doi:10.1007/s11721-007-0007-8
fatcat:nci6xod2ljam5m7aqqbgjltb7u
An ant's eye view of culture: propagation of new traditions through triggering dormant behavioural patterns
2008
Acta Ethologica
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We experimentally revealed that common litter dwelling ants Myrmica rubra effectively hunt jumping prey and the way the hunting behavioural pattern is distributed within ant colonies is rather sophisticated ...
We consider a previously unknown way of propagation of behavioural traditions in animal communities using hunting in ants as an example. ...
Acknowledgements We thank all colleagues who discussed these results at the XXX IEC Meeting in Halifax, 2007. ...
doi:10.1007/s10211-008-0044-3
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Bio-Inspired Group Behaviors for the Deployment of a Swarm of Robots to Multiple Destinations
2007
Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
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Our methodology is inspired by a dynamical model of ant house hunting [1], a decentralized process in which a colony attempts to emigrate to the best site among several alternatives. ...
Our methodology is inspired by a dynamical model of ant house hunting [1], a decentralized process in which a colony attempts to emigrate to the best site among several alternatives. ...
A fraction p of the colony is actively involved in house hunting, and the remainder consists of brood items and other "passive" ants that must be carried to a new nest. ...
doi:10.1109/robot.2007.363665
dblp:conf/icra/BermanHKP07
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Information flow, opinion polling and collective intelligence in house-hunting social insects
2002
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
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appear to employ when they are house hunting. ...
We compare this process in honeybees and in the ant Leptothorax albipennis. ...
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HOUSE HUNTING IN HONEYBEES House hunting in honeybees is typically associated with colony propagation. ...
doi:10.1098/rstb.2002.1066
pmid:12495514
pmcid:PMC1693068
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Natural History of the Neotropical Arboreal Ant,Odontomachus hastatus: Nest Sites, Foraging Schedule, and Diet
2012
Journal of Insect Science
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The foragers hunt singly in the trees, preying on a variety of canopy-dwelling arthropods, with flies, moths, ants, and spiders accounting for > 60% of the prey captured. ...
The ecology of most arboreal ants remains poorly documented because of the difficulty in accessing ant nests and foragers in the forest canopy. ...
Ants and bromeliads were ...
doi:10.1673/031.012.4801
pmid:22957686
pmcid:PMC3476954
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Page 215 of Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of State Papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies Vol. , Issue
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Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of State Papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies
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Dec. 7. Minutes of a Committee for Providence Island. Proposition of Brooke House. Ant. Roberts for payment of 35/., to be recommended to the Com- pany. ...
[Colonial Corresp., 1631, Nov. 4., pp. 37, 38.)
Nov. 27. Minutes of a Court for Providence Island. Answer promised to Brooke House. a request of John Hunt for discharge of his debts to the stores. ...
A new method for evaluating the complexity of animal behavioral patterns based on the notion of Kolmogorov complexity, with ants' hunting behavior as an example
2012
Neurocomputing
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We compared complete and incomplete hunting stereotypes in members of a natural ant colony and in naive laboratory-reared ants. ...
We suggest a method for evaluating the complexity of animal behavioral patterns based on the notion of Kolmogorov complexity, with ants' hunting behavior as an example. ...
Ants were housed in transparent laboratory nests on arenas (1 Â 2 m for the ''wild'' colony, and 80 Â 50 for each of the naive colonies) and received sugar sirup and water ad libitum. ...
doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2011.12.019
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A Comprehensive and Predictive Agent-based Model for Collective House-Hunting in Ant Colonies
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2020
bioRxiv
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As an example application of the framework, we adapt to it the much-studied house-hunting algorithm used by emigrating colonies of Temnothorax ants to reach consensus on a new nest. ...
The model proved relatively weak at resolving colony divisions among multiple sites, suggesting either limits to the ants' ability to reach consensus, or an aspect of their behavior not captured in our ...
Acknowledgements We thank Anna Dornhaus and Frederik Mallmann-Trenn for discussing the background literature and possible research directions early in the project. We also thank Emily Y. ...
doi:10.1101/2020.10.07.328047
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Experience-dependent flexibility in collective decision making by house-hunting ants
2011
Behavioral Ecology
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house-hunting ants showing that a fixed-threshold decision strategy at the individual level can lead to experience-dependent, flexible decisions at the colony level. ...
Here, we show that familiarization with available nest sites prior to emigration can lead to flexible collective decisions in the house-hunting ant Temnothorax albipennis. ...
The aim of this study was to investigate these issues further in the context of collective decision making by house-hunting ant colonies. ...
doi:10.1093/beheco/arr007
fatcat:lnni74n7dvhmbecfvsherliw7q
Patterns in foraging and nesting ecology in the neotropical ant, Gnamptogenys moelleri (Formicidae, Ponerinae)
2004
Insectes Sociaux
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The species used a wide array of invertebrates in its diet, hunting for live prey and scavenging the majority of the items from dead animals. The food items varied greatly in size (1 to 26 mm). ...
The ant nested on different bromeliad species and the nests were more frequently found in bigger bromeliads. ...
Brandão helped with ant identification, G. Machado, A.V.L. Freitas and A.X. Linhares identified some of the food items, and E.R. Pansarin identified the bromeliads. We are grateful to P.R. ...
doi:10.1007/s00040-003-0711-3
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