An Agent-Based Behavioural Model of Monomorium Pharaonis Colonies
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In this study X-machines and hierarchical organized Xmachines will be used to model different aspects of the behaviour of social insect communities. The model is organized as a community of complex agents showing similarities to networks of P systems.
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