Swarm field dynamics and functional morphogenesis

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:6616579

Millonas, M M ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States) Santa Fe Inst., NM (United States)

A class of models with application to swarm behavior as well as many other types of complex systems is studied with an emphasis on analytic techniques and results. Special attention is given to the role played by fluctuations in determining the behavior of such systems. In particular it is suggested that such fluctuations may play an active role, and not just the usual passive one, in the organization of structure in the vicinity of a non-equilibrium phase transition. One model, that of an ant swarm, is analyzed in more detail as an illustration of these ideas.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6616579
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-93-0053; CONF-9305122-2; ON: DE93007340
• Resource Relation: Conference: European conference on artificial life (ECAL 93), Brussels (Belgium), 24-26 May 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
BEHAVIOR
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
ANTS
TEMPERATURE EFFECTS
ANIMALS
ARTHROPODS
HYMENOPTERA
INSECTS
INVERTEBRATES
550100* - Behavioral Biology
990200 - Mathematics & Computers