An Agent Based Approach of Collective Foraging
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In this paper the behaviour of a bee colony is modeled as a society of communicating agents acting in parallel and synchronizing their behaviour. Two computational models for defining the agents behaviour are introduced and compared and tools developed for these models are briefly illustrated.
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