Highlights•Development of data collection, data analysis and application phases is
considered.•Decision Support Systems (DSS) are a mid-term task for Precision Beekee** …

The health of managed and wild honeybee colonies appears to have declined substantially
in E urope and the U nited S tates over the last decade. Sustainability of honeybee colonies …

My major motivation to think about swarm robotics is the question of how probabilistic local
actions of small robots sum up to rational global patterns shown by the swarm. For the …

We demonstrate the ability of a swarm of autonomous micro-robots to perform collective
decision making in a dynamic environment. This decision making is an emergent property of …

Honey bee nutrition is complex and unique and is not analogous to that of other
livestock/animals, where nutritional needs of specific animals are well understood and …

Nest-site selection in honeybees is a process of social decision making in which the scout
bees in a swarm locate several potential nest sites, evaluate them, and select the best one …

Food uncertainty has the effect of invigorating food-related responses. Psychologists have
noted that mammals and birds respond more to a conditioned stimulus that unreliably …

The population dynamics of eusocial insects differ significantly from those of non-eusocial
animals. With eusocial insects, one has to distinguish between a population of colonies and …

This article presents a bio-inspired communication strategy for large-scale robotic swarms.
The strategy is based purely on robot-to-robot interactions without any central unit of …

Our target article proposes that a new concept–incentive hope–is necessary in the
behavioral sciences to explain animal foraging under harsh environmental conditions …