dario@techunix.technion.ac.il (Dario Ringach) (04/21/91)
I would be grateful for any references to mathematical models of how working ants lay a pheronome trail leading from the food resource to the ant hole. Thanks in advance for any help! --Dario -- Dario Ringach Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 32000 Haifa, Israel dario@techunix.bitnet | dario@techunix.technion.ac.il
eneumann@bbn.com (Eric Neumann) (04/29/91)
In article <9950@discus.technion.ac.il> dario@techunix.technion.ac.il (Dario Ringach) writes: > I would be grateful for any references to mathematical models of > how working ants lay a pheronome trail leading from the food resource > to the ant hole. Thanks in advance for any help! --Dario I'm not quite sure of the model used, but Mike Travis at the MIT Media Lab has developed an ant colony foraging model in a LISP environment he calls AGAR. The program is based on the use of parallel agents, running simultaneously within each ant. The ants are capable of searching for food, bringing the food back to the colony, leaving pheromone trails, and following the trails back to the food again. The software was developed on the Mac platform. Eric Neumann BBN Laboratories Cambridge, MA