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Type: Artigo de Periódico
Title: The role of information acquisition and processing in decision-making by individual within insects colonies
Authors: Dávila Patrícia Ferreira Cruz
Renato Dourado Maia
Rafael Silveira Xavier
Leandro Nunes de Castro
Abstract: Insects usually present simple behaviours, but their information processing abilities result in complex collective behaviours, allowing them to perform task allocation and solve difficult problems. Biologists have invested efforts to better understand the mechanisms that govern the behaviour of social insects at the individual level and that allow the emergence of complex behaviours at the colony level. Based on biological researches, we identify the main mechanisms used to acquire different types of information and how this information is processed and used in decision-making. We present Information Acquisition as an essential stage for Information Processing, focusing on external and internal information sources and exploring examples of information processing performed by insects. A better understanding of information processing and collective behavior in nature is the basis for the understanding of how computing is realized in insect societies, as well for new insights to develop more effective computational approaches inspired by social insects.
Subject: Processo decisório
Inteligência coletiva
Comportamento informacional
Redes de informação
language: eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country: Brasil
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials: UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department: ICA - INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS AGRÁRIAS
Rights: Acesso Aberto
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2560
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/42965
Issue Date: 2019
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sres.2560
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Systems Research and Behavioral Science
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