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9783764357924

Information Processing in Social Insects

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    9783764357924

  • ISBN10:

    3764357924

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-09-01
  • Publisher: Birkhauser

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This book is a compilation of current research on information processi ng in insect societies. The first section concentrates on information flows between nest mates and group size effect on the regulation of ta sk allocation. The second section focuses on perception and behavioral response thresholds. The structuring role of these thresholds in soci al life as well as their determinants is discussed extensively. The la st two sections develop different though complementary approaches whic h either put the stress on the individual complexity of information ma nagement or refer to some simplicity of decision rules associated with amplifying phenomena.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
ix
Foreword xiii
Claire Detrain
Jean-Louis Deneubourg
Jacques Pasteels
Part 1 Group size and information flow inside the colony
Group size, productivity, and information flow in social wasps
3(28)
Robert L. Jeanne
Task partitioning in foraging: general principles, efficiency and information reliability of queueing delays
31(20)
Carl Anderson
Francis L. W. Ratnieks
Interaction patterns and task allocation in ant colonies
51(18)
Deborah M. Gordon
Information flow during social feeding in ant societies
69(14)
Deby Lee Cassill
Walter R. Tschinkel
Models of information flow in ant foraging: the benefits of both attractive and repulsive signals
83(18)
Tim R. Stickland
Nicholas F. Britton
Nigel R. Franks
Information flow in the social domain: how individuals decide what to do next
101(14)
Nigel R. Franks
Part 2 Role and control of behavioral thresholds
Response thresholds and division of labor in insect colonies
115(26)
Samuel N. Beshers
Gene E. Robinson
J. Mittenthal
Role and variability of response thresholds in the regulation of division of labor in insect societies
141(24)
Eric Bonabeau
Guy Theraulaz
Social control of division of labor in honey bee colonies
165(22)
Zhi-Yong Huang
Gene E. Robinson
Genetic, developmental and environmental determinants of honey bee foraging behavior
187(16)
Claudia Dreller
Robert E. Page Jr.
Behavioral threshold variability: costs and benefits in insect societies
203(16)
Robin F. A. Moritz
Robert E. Page Jr.
Part 3 The individual at the core of information management
Individuality and colonial identity in ants: the emergence of the social representation concept
219(20)
Alain Lenoir
Dominique Fresneau
Christine Errard
Abraham Hefetz
Key individuals and the organisation of labor in ants
239(22)
Simon K. Robson
James F.A. Traniello
Temporal information in social insects
261(16)
Vincent J.L. Fourcassie
Bertrand Schatz
Guy Beugnon
The individual at the core of information management
277(12)
Bernhard Ronacher
Rudiger Wehner
Part 4 Amplification of information and emergence of collective patterns
Activity cycles in ant colonies: worker interactions and decentralized control
289(20)
Blaine J. Cole
Franc I. Trampus
The mechanisms and rules of coordinated building in social insects
309(22)
Guy Theraulaz
Eric Bonabeau
Jean-Louis Deneubourg
Decision-making in foraging by social insects
331(24)
Claire Detrain
Jean-Louis Deneubourg
Jacques M. Pasteels
The mystery of swarming honeybees: from individual behaviors to collective decisions
355(24)
P. Kirk Visscher
Scott Camazine
Collective behavior in social caterpillars
379(22)
Terrence D. Fitzgerald
James T. Costa
Self-organization or individual complexity: a false dilemma or a true complementarity?
401(8)
Jean-Louis Deneubourg
Scott Camazine
Claire Detrain
Subject index 409

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