The behavioral mechanisms that lead to cooperation in social insects are often unknown or
poorly understood. Cooperative transport, or the movement of an object by two or more …

Los estuarios constituyen la desembocadura de los ríos hacia el océano, representando la
transición del ambiente dulceacuícola al marino. La salinidad de los estuarios es diluida en …

An optimization algorithm, inspired by the animal Behavioral Ecology Theory—Optimal
Foraging Theory, named the Optimal Foraging Algorithm (OFA) has been developed. As a …

Ants are the most widely distributed and most numerically abundant group of social insects.
First, they were ground-or litter-dwelling predators or scavengers, and certain taxa evolved …

Omnipresent in virtually all terrestrial ecosystems and of undisputed ecological and
economical importance, the study of social insects is an area that continues to attract a vast …

In social insects, the decision to exploit a food source is made both at the individual (eg, a
worker collecting a food item) and colony level (eg, several workers communicating the …

The ecological success of the social insects depends on their ability to work with a unity of
purpose. Task partitioning, breaking a task into subtasks performed by different individuals …

Drilling path optimization (DPO) is a crucial issue in current manufacturing systems. In this
paper, an optimization algorithm named the optimal foraging algorithm (OFA) is presented …

Cataglyphis ants are mostly scavengers adapted to forage individually in arid environments.
Although they are widely thought to have lost the capacity of recruitment, we provide …

In this review, we show that predatory ants have a wide range of foraging behavior,
something expected given their phylogenetic distance and the great variation in their colony …