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Self-Synchronization and Task Fulfilment in Social Insects

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  • Jordi Delgado
  • Ricard V. Sole

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Some authors have hypothesized that the observed self-synchronized activity in ant colonies provides some adaptive advantages, and, in particular, it has been suggested that task realization may benefit from this ordered temporal pattern of behavior (Robinson, 1992; Hatcher et al., 1992). In this paper we couple models of self-synchronized activity (the Fluid Neural Network) and of regulation of division of labour (the Fixed Threshold Model) to suggest that with self-synchronized patterns of activity a task may be fulfilled more effectively than with random patterns of activity at the same average level of activity per individual.

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  • Jordi Delgado & Ricard V. Sole, 1998. "Self-Synchronization and Task Fulfilment in Social Insects," Working Papers 98-08-069, Santa Fe Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:wop:safiwp:98-08-069
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