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Autor: Octavio Miramontes
Publicado: 2007 physiscs, biology, complexity theory, animal behaviour, ants, agent-based models, chaos, fractals, emergency, complex systems collective behaviour English Trends in Science Cat: TS0001EN ISBN: 978-0-9831172-2-3   Al
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Ants in your kitchen are chaotic? Find many other interesting questions in this free book! Social behaviour in ants of the genus Leptothorax is reviewed. Attention is paid to the existence of collective robust periodic oscillations in the activity of ants inside the nest. It is known that those oscillations are the outcome of the process of short-distance interactions among ants and that the activity of individual workers is not periodic. Isolated workers can activate spontaneously in an unpredictable fashion. A model of an artificial society of computer automata endowed with the basic behavioural traits of Leptothorax ants is presented and it is demonstrated that collective periodic oscillations in the activity domain can exist as a consequence of interactions among the automata. It is concluded that those oscillations are generic properties common to both natural and artificial social complex systems. Are chaotic ativity of ants similar to the disordered activity of humans?  Octavio Miramontes is a physicist graduated from UNAM and with a PhD from Imperial College London. He is currently a full-time researcher at the Physics Institute UNAM, in Mexico City. He has been an invited professor in several universities across the world including MIT, Princeton, Cambridge, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Brazil, Chile and Colombia. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. |
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