Self-Synchronization and Task Fulfilment in Social Insects

Jordi Delgado and Ricard V. Sole

Working Papers from Santa Fe Institute

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Social insects; synchronization; fluid neural networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-08
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