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Have CA been used to model ant behavior?

April 26, 2017Ant Behavior ca model Used

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Have CA been used to model ant behavior?

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Contributions by: Bauchau, Vincent” Perry Wagle Most models of ants (and other social insects) are not strictly CA since the rules of behavior are associated with elements that move, rather than with a site in space. However, there are many basic questions (“How do simple local rules give rise to global complex behavior?”) which apply equally well to CA and ant models. The definitive book on ants is: Wilson E.O. and Holldobler B 1990 The Ants. Springer, 732 pp, 1000 ill. (This book won the Pullitzer price.) “A Parallel Distributed Model of the Behaviour of Ant Colonies” D.M. Gordon, B.C. Goodwin and L.E.H. Trainor, J theor Biol (1992) 156, 293-307. Models the dynamics of task-switching in harvester ants.