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  1. Swarm Intelligence
  2. Swarm Intelligence : Volume 5
  3. Swarm Intelligence : Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2011
  4. Termites as models of swarm cognition
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Swarm Intelligence : Volume 5
Swarm Intelligence : Volume 5, Issue 3-4, December 2011
Swarm Intelligence : Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2011
Swarm Intelligence : Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2011
Special issue on Swarm Cognition
Swarm Cognition: an interdisciplinary approach to the study of self-organising biological collectives
Termites as models of swarm cognition
Swarm cognition on off-road autonomous robots
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Swarm Intelligence : Volume 2
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Termites as models of swarm cognition

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Author Turner, J. Scott
Copyright Year 2010
Abstract Eusociality has evolved independently at least twice among the insects: among the Hymenoptera (ants and bees), and earlier among the Isoptera (termites). Studies of swarm intelligence, and by inference, swarm cognition, have focused largely on the bees and ants, while the termites have been relatively neglected. Yet, termites are among the world’s premier animal architects, and this betokens a sophisticated swarm intelligence capability. In this article, I review new findings on the workings of the mound of Macrotermes which clarify how these remarkable structures work, and how they come to be built. Swarm cognition in these termites is in the form of “extended” cognition, whereby the swarm’s cognitive abilities arise both from interaction amongst the individual agents within a swarm, and from the interaction of the swarm with the environment, mediated by the mound’s dynamic architecture. The latter provides large scale “cognitive maps” which enable termite swarms to assess the functional state of their structure and to guide repair efforts where necessary. The crucial role of the built environment in termite swarm cognition also points to certain “swarm cognitive disorders”, where swarms can be pushed into anomalous activities by manipulating crucial structural and functional attributes of the termite system of “extended cognition.”
Starting Page 19
Ending Page 43
Page Count 25
File Format PDF
ISSN 19353812
Journal Swarm Intelligence
Volume Number 5
Issue Number 1
e-ISSN 19353820
Language English
Publisher Springer US
Publisher Date 2010-12-02
Publisher Place Boston
Access Restriction One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword Swarm Cognition Termites Macrotermes Stigmergy Superorganism Social insect Computer Communication Networks Communications Engineering, Networks ApplicationMathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Content Type Text
Resource Type Article
Subject Artificial Intelligence
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