TY - JOUR 
A1 - Vela Pérez, María
AU - Fontelos, Marco A.
AU - Garnier, S.
T1 - From individual to collective dynamics in Argentine ants (Linepithema humile)
Y1 - 2015
SN - 00255564
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/3887
AB - In this paper we propose a model for the formation of paths in Argentine ants when foraging in an empty
arena. Based on experimental observations, we provide a distribution for the random change in direction that
they approximately undergo while foraging as a mixture of a Gaussian and a Pareto distribution. By following
the principles described in previous work [32], we consider persistence and reinforcement to create a model
for the motion of ants in the plane. Numerical simulations based on this model lead to the formation of
branched ant-trails analogous to those observed experimentally.
KW - Hormigas
KW - Ciencia
LA - eng
ER -