by admin | Jan 1, 2019 | Gordon Lab
Deborah M. Gordon AbstractNest choice in Temnothorax spp.; task allocation and the regulation of activity in Pheidole dentata, Pogonomyrmex barbatus, and Atta spp.; and trail networks in Monomorium pharaonis and Cephalotes goniodontus all provide examples of...
by admin | Jun 18, 2018 | Gordon Lab
Arjun Chandrasekhar | Deborah M. Gordon | Saket Navlakha AbstractWe study how the arboreal turtle ant (Cephalotes goniodontus) solves a fundamental computing problem: maintaining a trail network and finding alternative paths to route around broken links in the...
by admin | Sep 29, 2017 | Gordon Lab
Deborah M. Gordon AbstractThis study examines how an arboreal ant colony maintains, extends, and repairs its network of foraging trails and nests, built on a network of vegetation. Nodes are junctions where a branch forks off from another or where a branch of one...
by admin | Dec 21, 2016 | Gordon Lab
Deborah M. Gordon AbstractCollective behavior is the outcome of a network of local interactions. Here, I consider collective behavior as the result of algorithms that have evolved to operate in response to a particular environment and physiological context. I discuss...
by admin | Jul 1, 2016 | Gordon Lab
Deborah M. Gordon Abstract‘Division of labor’ is a misleading way to describe the organization of tasks in social insect colonies, because there is little evidence for persistent individual specialization in task. Instead, task allocation in social insects occurs...
by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | Gordon Lab
Deborah M. Gordon AbstractSimilar patterns of interaction, such as network motifs and feedback loops, are used in many natural collective processes, probably because they have evolved independently under similar pressures. Here I consider how three environmental...
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