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Regulation Mechanism of Task-allocation and Formation Mechanism of Ants’ Distribution Pattern in Collective Behavior of Ant Colony Models

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the interaction between the formation mechanism of the distribution pattern of ants supported by pheromone signals and the regulation mechanism of task-allocation in collective behavior of an ant colony. In this paper I design two types of ant colony model focusing on pheromone signals and the sensitivity of ants, and analyze simulated behaviors of the models. First, I design three foraging models (trail, attraction and desensitization models) composed by ants with different sensitivities to recruit pheromone. Among them, the desensitization model composed for ants that change their sensitivities in response to environmental information around them always shows the best foraging efficiency, stable recruitment pattern and balanced allocation among subtasks. In the second, I design a task-allocation model composed for ants carrying out foraging and mound-piling tasks using independent signals for each task. The results indicate that weak interference occurs between both tasks.

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  1. Research Institute of Cell Engineering (RICE), National Institutes of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 3-11-46 Nakoji, Amagasaki, Hyogo, 661-0974, Japan

    Mari Nakamura

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Oklahoma State University, North Greenwood Avenue 700, 74106, Tulsa, USA

    Ajith Abraham

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Mizumoto-cho 27-1, 050-8585, Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan

    Yasuhiko Dote

  3. Dept. of Computational Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, 464-8601, Nagoya, Aichi-ken, Japan

    Takeshi Furuhashi

  4. Institut für Sicherheits-/Prüftechnik, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin, Pascalstr. 8-9, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Mario Köppen

  5. Division of Complex Systems Technology Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hokkaido, N-13, W-8 060 KITA-KU, Sapporo, Japan

    Azuma Ohuchi

  6. PRESTO Japan Science & Technology Corp. GSSM, University of Tsukuba, 3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, 12-0012, Tokyo, Japan

    Yukio Ohsawa

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Nakamura, M. (2005). Regulation Mechanism of Task-allocation and Formation Mechanism of Ants’ Distribution Pattern in Collective Behavior of Ant Colony Models. In: Abraham, A., Dote, Y., Furuhashi, T., Köppen, M., Ohuchi, A., Ohsawa, Y. (eds) Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32391-0_97

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