on Model of Droplet Dynamics in the Argentine Ant (2009)
Linepithema Humile (mayr, Guy Theraulaz, Eric Bonabeau, Christian Sauwens, Jean-louis Deneubourg, Ricard Solé
The formation of droplets of ants Linepithema humile (Mayr) is observed under certain experimental conditions: a fluctuating aggregate forms at the end of a rod and a droplet containing up to 40 ants...
Dominance Orders in Animal Societies: The Selforganization Hypothesis Revisited (2007)
Hypothesis Revisited, Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Jean-louis Deneubourg
In previous papers (Theraulaz et al. 1995, Bonabeau et al. 1996) we suggested, following Hogeweg and Hesper (1983, 1985), that the formation of dominance orders in animal societies could result from...
Response Threshold Model of Division of Labour in a Ponerine Ant (2007)
Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Bertrand Schatz, Jean-louis Deneubourg
this paper is simple, plausible, remarkably consistent with experiments, and relies solely on empirically measured parameter values. On the negative side, additional measurements are needed to...
Latency Time and Absence of Group Effect: Two Examples (2007)
Jean-louis Deneubourg, Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz
We suggest that group effect need not be invoked to explain the differences in latency times exhibited by groups of different sizes in the initiation of building in the termite Macrotermes...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz
Abstract. Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social insects--...
Decision making dynamics in corporate boards (2006)
Battiston, Stefano, Bonabeau, Eric, Weisbuch, Gerard
Members of boards of directors of large corporations who also serve together on an outside board, form the so called interlock graph of the board and are assumed to have a strong influence on each...
Spread of decisions in the corporate board network (2003)
Battiston, Stefano, Weisbuch, Gérard, Bonabeau, Eric
Boards of large corporations sharing some of their directorsare connected in complex networks. Boards are responsible forcorporations' long-term strategy and are often involved in decisionsabout a...
Spread of decisions in the corporate board network (2003)
Battiston, Stefano, Weisbuch, Gérard, Bonabeau, Eric
Boards of large corporations sharing some of their directorsare connected in complex networks. Boards are responsible forcorporations' long-term strategy and are often involved in decisionsabout a...
Spread of decisions in the corporate board network (2003)
Battiston, Stefano, Weisbuch, Gerard, Bonabeau, Eric
Boards of large corporations sharing some of their directors are connected in complex networks. Boards are responsible for corporations' long-term strategy and are often involved in decisions about a...
Spread of decisions in the corporate board network (2003)
Battiston, Stefano, Weisbuch, Gérard, Bonabeau, Eric
Boards of large corporations sharing some of their directorsare connected in complex networks. Boards are responsible forcorporations' long-term strategy and are often involved in decisionsabout a...
Spread of decisions in the corporate board network (2003)
Battiston, Stefano, Weisbuch, Gérard, Bonabeau, Eric
Boards of large corporations sharing some of their directorsare connected in complex networks. Boards are responsible forcorporations' long-term strategy and are often involved in decisionsabout a...
Agent-Based Modeling for Testing and Designing Novel Decentralized Command and (2003)
Eric Bonabeau, Ltc Carl, W. Hunt, Paolo Gaudiano
Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a recent simulation modeling technique that consists of modeling a system from the bottom up, capturing the interactions taking place between the system’s constituent...
Swarm Intelligence: a New C2 Paradigm with an Application to Control of Swarms of UAVs (2003)
Paolo Gaudiano, Ben Shargel, Eric Bonabeau, Bruce T. Clough, Fawcett St
We have developed an agent-based model to simulate command and control of a swarm of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs). Our approach makes use of decentralized strategies to control a UAV swarm carrying...
Decision spread in the corporate board network (2003)
Stefano Battiston, Gérard Weisbuch, Eric Bonabeau
Boards of large corporations sharing some of their directors are connected in complex networks. Boards are responsible for corporations ’ long-term strategy and are often involved in decisions...
Decision making dynamics in corporate boards (2003)
Stefano Battiston, Eric Bonabeau, Gérard Weisbuch
Members of boards of directors of large corporations who also serve together on an outside board, form the so called interlock graph of the board and are assumed to have a strong influence on each...
Decision spread in the corporate board network (2003)
Stefano Battiston, Gérard Weisbuch, Eric Bonabeau
Boards of large corporations sharing some of their directors are connected in complex networks. Boards are responsible for corporations ’ long-term strategy and are often involved in decisions...
Decision making dynamics in corporate boards (2002)
Battiston, Stefano, Bonabeau, Eric, Weisbuch, Gerard
Members of boards of directors of large corporations who also serve together on an outside board, form the so called interlock graph of the board and are assumed to have a strong influence on each...
Decision making dynamics in corporate boards (2002)
Battiston, Stefano, Bonabeau, Eric, Weisbuch, Gerard
Members of boards of directors of large corporations who also serve together on an outside board, form the so called interlock graph of the board and are assumed to have a strong influence on each...
Decision making dynamics in corporate boards (2002)
Battiston, Stefano, Bonabeau, Eric, Weisbuch, Gerard
Members of boards of directors of large corporations who also serve together on an outside board, form the so called interlock graph of the board and are assumed to have a strong influence on each...
Dynamic scheduling and division of labor (2001)
Mike Campos, Eric Bonabeau, Guy Théraulaz, Jean-louis Deneubourg, Mike Campos, Eric Bonabeau, ...
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Cooperative transport by ants and robots (2000)
In several species of ants, workers cooperate to retrieve large prey. Usually, one ant nds a prey item, tries to move it, and, when unsuccessful for some time, recruits nestmates through direct...
Swarm Intelligence : From Natural to Artificial Systems (1999)
Bonabeau, Eric, Dorigo, Marco, Theraulaz, Guy
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Pattern Formation and Optimization in Army Ant Raids (1999)
Ricard V. Sole, Eric Bonabeau, Jordi Delgado, Pau Fernández, Jesus Marín
this paper we explore, by means of a simple search algorithm, the properties of these trails in order to test the hypothesis that their structure reflects an optimized mechanism for exploring and...
Scaling in Animal Group-Size Distributions (1999)
Eric Bonabeau, Laurent Dagorn, Pierre Freon
An elementary model of animal aggregation is presented. The group size distributions resulting from this model are truncated power laws. The predictions of the model are found to be consistent with...
Swarm Intelligence: A New C2 Paradigm with an Application to Control Swarms of UAVs (1998)
Gaudiano, Paolo, Shargel, Benjamin, Bonabeau, Eric, Clough, Bruce T.
We have developed an agent-based model to simulate command and control of a swarm of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs). Our approach makes use of decentralized strategies to control a UAV swarm carrying...
Evolving Ant Colony Optimization (1998)
Hozefa M. Botee, Eric Bonabeau
ABSTRACT. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a promising new approach to combinatorial optimization. Here ACO is applied to the traveling salesman problem (TSP). Using a genetic algorithm (GA) to nd...
Eric Bonabeau, Florian Henaux, Sylvain Guérin
Abstract. A simple mechanism is presented, based on ant-like agents, for routing and load balancing in telecommunications networks, following the initial works of Appleby and Stewart (1994) and...
Evolving Ant Colony Optimization (1998)
Hozefa M. Botee, Eric Bonabeau
ABSTRACT.Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a promising new approach to combinatorial optimization. Here ACO is applied to the traveling salesman problem (TSP). Using a genetic algorithm (GA) to nd the...
Cooperative Transport By Ants and Robots (1998)
In several species of ants, workers cooperate to retrieve large prey. Usually, one ant finds a prey item, tries to move it, and, when unsuccessful for some time, recruits nestmates through direct...
The Geographic Spread of Influenza (1998)
Eric Bonabeau, Laurent Toubiana, Antoine Flahault
this paper are given for all epidemic cycles between 1987 and 1995. One question of particular interest is whether or not geographic space, including heterogeneities in population distribution, is...
Response Threshold Reinforcement and Division of Labour in Insect Societies (1998)
Guy Theraulaz, Eric Bonabeau, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
this article, but the reinforcement mechanism that was described can certainly lead to stable patterns of temporal polyethism. More generally, the formulation of the model lends itself to many...
The Phase-Ordering Kinetics of Cemetery Organization in Ants (1998)
Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Vincent Fourcassié, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
The clustering of dead bodies by ants is simulated, using a cellular automaton model, the rules of which are carefully derived from experiments. Starting from a random spatial distribution of...
Evolving Ant Colony Optimization (1998)
Hozefa M. Botee, Eric Bonabeau
. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a promising new approach to combinatorial optimization. Here ACO is applied to the traveling salesman problem (TSP). Using a genetic algorithm (GA) to nd the best...
From Classical Models of Morphogenesis to Agent-based Models of Pattern Formation (1997)
Abstract An extremely large body of theoretical work exists on pattern formation, but very few experimental results have confirmed the relevance of theoretical models. It is argued in this article...
Marginally Stable Swarms Are Flexible and Efficient (1996)
A simple model of cooperative food retrieval in ants is introduced to illustrate how a many-body biological system such as a swarm can exhibit an efficient and flexible behavior if it is close to an...
Marginally Stable Swarms Are Flexible and Efficient (1996)
A simple model of cooperative food retrieval in ants is introduced to illustrate how a many-body biological system such as a swarm can exhibit an efficient and flexible behavior if it is close to an...
Marginally Stable Swarms Are Flexible and Efficient (1996)
A simple model of cooperative food retrieval in ants is introduced to illustrate how a many-body biological system such as a swarm can exhibit an efficient and flexible behavior if it is close to an...
Self-Organization in Social Insects
Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulza, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Serge Aron, Scott Camazine
Self-organization was originally introduced in the context of physics and chemistry to describe how microscopic processes give rise to macroscopic structures in out-of-equilibrium systems. Recent...
Scaling in animal group-size distributions
Bonabeau, Eric, Dagorn, Laurent, Fréon, Pierre
An elementary model of animal aggregation is presented. The group-size distributions resulting from this model are truncated power laws. The predictions of the model are found to be consistent with...
Spatial patterns in ant colonies
Theraulaz, Guy, Bonabeau, Eric, Nicolis, Stamatios C., Solé, Ricard V., Fourcassié, Vincent, Blanco, Stéphane, ...
The origins of large-scale spatial patterns in biology have been an important source of theoretical speculation since the pioneering work by Turing (1952) on the chemical basis of morphogenesis....
Agent-based modeling: Methods and techniques for simulating human systems
Agent-based modeling is a powerful simulation modeling technique that has seen a number of applications in the last few years, including applications to real-world business problems. After the basic...
Scaling in animal group-size distributions
Bonabeau, Eric, Dagorn, Laurent, Fréon, Pierre
An elementary model of animal aggregation is presented. The group-size distributions resulting from this model are truncated power laws. The predictions of the model are found to be consistent with...
Spatial patterns in ant colonies
Theraulaz, Guy, Bonabeau, Eric, Nicolis, Stamatios C., Solé, Ricard V., Fourcassié, Vincent, Blanco, Stéphane, ...
The origins of large-scale spatial patterns in biology have been an important source of theoretical speculation since the pioneering work by Turing (1952) on the chemical basis of morphogenesis....
Agent-based modeling: Methods and techniques for simulating human systems
Agent-based modeling is a powerful simulation modeling technique that has seen a number of applications in the last few years, including applications to real-world business problems. After the basic...
Pattern Formation and Optimization in Army Ant Raids
Ricard V. Solé, Eric Bonabeau, Jordi Delgado, Pau Fernández, Jesus Marín
Army ant colonies display complex foraging raid patterns involving thousands of individuals communicating through chemical trails. In this paper we explore, by means of a simple search algorithm, the...
Evolving Ant Colony Optimization
Hozefa M. Botee, Eric Bonabeau
Social insects---ants, bees, termites and wasps---exhibit a collective problem-solving ability (Deneubourg and Goss, 1989; Bonabeau et al., 1997). In particular, several ant species are capable of...
Cooperative Transport By Ants and Robots
In several species of ants, workers cooperate to retrieve large prey. Usually, one ant finds a prey item, tries to move it, and, when unsucessful for some time, recuits nestmates through direct...
Dominance Orders in Animal Societies: The Self-Organization Hypothesis Revisited
Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
In previous papers (Theraulaz et al. 1995, Bonabeau et al. 1996) we suggested, following Hogeweg and Hesper (1983, 1985), that the formation of dominance orders in animal societies could result from...
Response Threshold Model of Division of Labour in a Ponerine Ant
Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Bertrand Schatz, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
A simple response threshold model is used to explain a pattern of division of labour observed in the ponerine ant Ectatomma ruidum, where it was found that prey-foraging behaviour could be subdivided...
Scaling in Animal Group-Size Distributions
Eric Bonabeau, Laurent Dagorn, Pierre Freon
An elementary model of animal aggregation is presented. The gorup size distributions resulting from this model are truncated power laws. The predictions of the model are found to be consistent with...
The Geographic Spread of Influenza
Eric Bonabeau, Laurent Toubiana, Antoine Flahault
How infectious diseases spread in space within one cycle of an epidemic is an important question that has received considerable theoretical attention. There are, however, few empirical studies to...
Within-Brood Competition and the Optimal Partitioning of Parental Investment
Eric Bonabeau, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Guy Theraulaz
In this article, we introduce a simple within-brood competitive growth model that maximizes parental fitness in unpredictable food conditions, in species that exhibit parental care, progressive...
The Phase-Ordering Kinetics of Cemetery Organization in Ants
Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Vincent Fourcassi\'e, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
The clustering of dead bodies by ants is simulated, using a cellular automaton model, the rules of which are carefully derived from experiments. Starting from a random spatial distribution of...
Latency Time and Absence of Group Effect: Two Examples
Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz
We suggest that group effect need not be invoked to explain the differences in latency times exhibited by groups of different sizes in the initiation of building in the termite {\it Macrotermes...
Response Threshold Reinforcement and Division of Labor in Insect Societies
Guy Theraulaz, Eric Bonabeau, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
A model of division of labour in insect societies based on variable response thresholds is introduced. Response thresholds refer to likelihood of reacting to task-associated stimuli. Low threshold...
The Design of Complex Architectures by Simple Agents
Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Fran\c Cois Cogne
Complex architectures grown by simple agents moving randomly on a 3D lattice and depositing bricks deterministically depending on local configurations of bricks are presented. Some of these...
Adaptive Task Allocation Inspired by a Model of Division of Labor in Social Insects
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social insects---swarm...
Routing in Telecommunications Networks with ``Smart'' Ant-Like Agents
Eric Bonabeau, Florian Henaux, Sylvain Gu\'erin, Dominique Snyers, Pascale Kuntz, Guy Theraulaz
A simple mechanism is presented, based on ant-like agents, for routing and load balancing in telecommunications networks, following the initial works of Appleby and Stewart (1994) and Schoonderwoerd...
The Emergence of Pillars, Walls, and Royal Chambers in Termite Nests
Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulza, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Nigel R. Franks, Oliver Rafelsberger, Jean-Louis Joly, ...
A simple model of the emergence of pillars in termite nests (Deneubourg, 1977) is modified to include several additional features that break the homogeneity of the original model: (1) a convection...
CO-EVOLVING BUSINESS MODELS: A CASE STUDY WITH THE INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER (ISP) INDUSTRY
IAN FENTY, ERIC BONABEAU, JUERGEN BRANKE
In this paper, co-evolution is used to examine the long-term evolution of business models in an industry. Two types of co-evolution are used: synchronous, whereby the entire population of business...
DECISION SPREAD IN THE CORPORATE BOARD NETWORK
STEFANO BATTISTON, GÃRARD WEISBUCH, ERIC BONABEAU
The boards of large corporations sharing some of their directors are connected in complex networks. Boards are responsible for corporations' long-term strategy and are often involved in decisions...
Social Insect Colonies as Complex Adaptive Systems
Self-organizing maps (SOM) are unsupervised, competitive neural networks used to project high-dimensional data onto a low-dimensial space. In this article we show how SOM can be sued to draw graphs...
Self-Organizing Maps for Drawing Large Graphs
Self-organizing maps (SOM) are unsupervised, competitive neural networks used to project high-dimensional data onto a low-dimensial space. In this article we show how SOM can be sued to draw graphs...
Group and Mass Recruitment in Ant Colonies: The Influence of Contact Rates
Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
The influence of contact rates on the efficiency (the ability to exploit a profitable environment) and flexibilty (the ability to track a changing environment) of foraging in ants is studied...
Graph Partitioning with Self-Organizing Maps
Self-organizing maps with variable local topology are shown to constitute a reasonably good heuristic to find approximate solutions to the NP-complete k-way graph partitioning problem, where a...
Evidence for Global Mixing in Real Influenza Epidemics
Eric Bonabeau, Laurent Toubiana, Antoine Flahault
The spatiotemporal behavior of the spread of influenza in France has been studied, and algebraic spatial correlations (with exponent ) spanning the whole territory have been found to be present as...
Fixed Response Thresholds and the Regulation of Division of Labor in Insect Societies
Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
We introduce a simple mathematical model of regulation of division of labour in insect societies based on the notion of fixed response thresholds. Individuals with different thresholds respond...
The Synchronization of Recruitment-Based Activities of Ants
Eric Bonabeau, Guy Theraulaz, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
A simple model of recruitment-based foraging in ants illustrates the idea that synchronized patterns of activity can endow a colony with the ability to forage more efficiently when a minimal number...
From Classical Models of Morphogenesis to Agent-Based Models of Pattern Formation
An extremely large body of theoretical work exists on pattern formation, but vey few experimental results have confirmed the relevance of theoretical models. It is argued in this paper that the...