ESTRATÉGIAS ADAPTATIVAS EM SOCIEDADES DE FORMIGAS

Abstract

We analyse a model proposed by Deneubourg et alii, 1983 (J. Theor. Biol., 105, 259-271) for studying the strategy used by ant societies in food recruitment. This model reveals that there is a level of randomness in ant communication that minimizes the time of food recruitment. We discuss how the concept of self-organization that comes with this model could be applied for solving automation and optimization problems, and how the communication fidelity might be used for controlling the behaviour of interactive robot societies.