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Buffon's Needle
A model to compare the efficacy of the existing two-pass nest size assessment strategy in the ant Temnothorax albipennis
(formerly Leptothorax albipennis) against a hypothetical one-pass strategy. Written by James Marshall.
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Publications
- Marshall, J. A. R., Kovacs, T., Dornhaus, A. R. & Franks, N. R. (2003) Simulating the evolution of ant behaviour in evaluating nest sites. In: W. Banzhaf et al. (eds.) Advances in Artificial Life - Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2801, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg [PDF]