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In this paper the behaviour of a bee colony is modeled as a society of communicating agents acting in parallel and synchronizing their behaviour. Two computational models for defining the agents behaviour are introduced and compared and tools developed for these models are briefly illustrated.
Work supported by EPSRC grant GR/R84221/01
Present address: Ramón y Cajal Position at Research Group in Mathematical Linguistics, Rovira i Virgili University, Pça. Imperial Tárraco 1, 43005 Tarragona, Spain.
Work supported by the project TIC2002-04220-C03-01 of the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología of Spain, cofinaciered by FEDER funds
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Gheorghe, M., Martín-Vide, C., Mitrana, V., Pérez Jiménez, M.J. (2003). An Agent Based Approach of Collective Foraging. In: Mira, J., Álvarez, J.R. (eds) Computational Methods in Neural Modeling. IWANN 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2686. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44868-3_81
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