Marginally Stable Swarms Are Flexible and Efficient

1 February 1996

journal article
Published by EDP Sciences in Journal de Physique I

Vol. 6 (2) , 309-324
https://doi.org/10.1051/jp1:1996151

Abstract

A simple model of cooperative food retrieval in ants is introduced to illustrate how a many-body biological system such as a swarm can exhibit an efficient and flexible behavior if it is close to an instability, but in a region where structured patterns of activity can grow and be maintained

Keywords

MARGINALLY STABLE SWARMS
FLEXIBLE AND EFFICIENT
SWARMS ARE FLEXIBLE

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