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Connection Science Volume 20, 2008 - Issue 2-3: Social Learning in Embodied Agents
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Optimisation of a honeybee-colony's energetics via social learning based on queuing delays

Ronald Thenius Department for Zoology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Universitätsplatz, Graz, AustriaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Thomas Schmickl Department for Zoology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Universitätsplatz, Graz, Austria
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Karl Crailsheim Department for Zoology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Universitätsplatz, Graz, Austria
Pages 193-210 | Published online: 20 May 2008

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Thomas Schmickl & Istvan Karsai. (2017) Resilience of honeybee colonies via common stomach: A model of self-regulation of foraging. PLOS ONE 12:11, pages e0188004.
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Thomas Schmickl & Istvan Karsai. (2016) How regulation based on a common stomach leads to economic optimization of honeybee foraging. Journal of Theoretical Biology 389, pages 274-286.
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Thomas Schmickl & Istvan Karsai. (2014) Sting, Carry and Stock: How Corpse Availability Can Regulate De-Centralized Task Allocation in a Ponerine Ant Colony. PLoS ONE 9:12, pages e114611.
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Heiko Hamann, Istvan Karsai & Thomas Schmickl. (2013) Time Delay Implies Cost on Task Switching: A Model to Investigate the Efficiency of Task Partitioning. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 75:7, pages 1181-1206.
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Thomas Schmickl, Ronald Thenius & Karl Crailsheim. (2010) Swarm-intelligent foraging in honeybees: benefits and costs of task-partitioning and environmental fluctuations. Neural Computing and Applications 21:2, pages 251-268.
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B. R. Johnson. (2010) Task partitioning in honey bees: the roles of signals and cues in group-level coordination of action. Behavioral Ecology 21:6, pages 1373-1379.
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