Myrmedrome: Simulating the Life of an Ant Colony

Simone Cacace, Emiliano Cristiani and Dario D’Eustacchio
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Simone Cacace: Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Mathematics “Guido Castelnuovo”
Emiliano Cristiani: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “Mauro Picone”
Dario D’Eustacchio: Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Biology and Biotecnologies “Charles Darwin”

A chapter in Imagine Math 2, 2013, pp 201-210 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Ants are a Family of insects that includes about 12,200 different species, counting only those studied so far. Although they all appear similar, these social insects show an enormous biological diversity: from their anatomical characteristics to their reproductive behaviour, from the population densities of colonies to the types of nests, from what they eat to the many kinds of interactions that many species of ants establish with different species of living organisms. Even though it is difficult to generalise, let us describe the ‘typical’ biology of these extremely evolved creatures.

Keywords: Biological Engine; Alarm Pheromone; Entire Colony; Graphic Engine; Odor Trail (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-88-470-2889-0_22

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