Information Processing in Social Insects.

Intro -- Information Processing in Social Insects -- Copyright -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Part 1 Group size and information flow inside the colony -- Group size, productivity, and information flow in social wasps -- Task partitioning in foraging: general principles, efficiency and information reliability of queueing delays -- Interaction patterns and task allocation in ant colonies -- Information flow during social feeding in ant societies -- Models of information flow in ant foraging: the benefits of both attractive and repulsive signals -- Information flow in the social domain: how individuals decide what to do next -- Part 2 Role and control of behavioral thresholds -- Response thresholds and division of labor in insect colonies -- Role and variability of response thresholds in the regulation of division of labor in insect societies -- Social control of division of labor in honey bee colonies -- Genetic, developmental, and environmental determinants of honey bee foraging behavior -- Behavioral threshold variability: costs and benefits in insect societies -- Part 3 The individual at the core of information management -- Individuality and colonial identity in ants: the emergence of the social representation concept -- Key individuals and the organisation of labor in ants -- Temporal information in social insects -- The individual at the core of information management -- Part 4 Amplification of information and emergence of collective patterns -- Activity cycles in ant colonies: worker interactions and decentralized control -- The mechanisms and rules of coordinated building in social insects -- Decision-making in foraging by social insects -- The mystery of swarming honeybees: from individual behaviors to collective decisions -- Collective behavior in social caterpillars.

Self-organization or individual complexity: a false dilemma or a true complementarity? -- Subject index.

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