An Upper and Lower Bound for the Convergence Time of House-Hunting in Temnothorax Ant Colonies

We study the problem of house-hunting in ant colonies, where ants reach consensus on a new nest and relocate their colony to that nest, from a distributed computing perspective. We propose a house-hunting algorithm that is biologically inspired by Temnothorax ants. Each ant is modeled as a probabili...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Emily (Author), Zhao, Jiajia (Author), Lynch, Nancy (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2022-08-10T15:13:24Z.
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