Self-synchronization and Task Fulllment in Ant Colonies

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 beneet from this ordered temporal pattern of behavior (Robinson, 1992; Hatcher et al., 1992). In this paper we use a model of self-synchronized activity (the Fluid Neural Network) to suggest that with self-synchronized patterns of activity a task may be fullled more eeectively than with non-synchronized activity, at the same average level of activity per individual.