Artificial ant colony foraging simulation and emergent property analysis

Author

Zhang, Cheng ; Jia, Suling ; Wei, Fajie

Author_Institution

Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Beihang Univ., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

1-6 June 2008

Firstpage

1907

Lastpage

1912

Abstract

Based on Wilenskypsilas ant colony foraging model and considering additional nature rules including multi-species, competition and evolution mechanism, the model called AntcolonySim was promoted. Simulations based on AntcolonySim under different conditions were carried out as well as emergent properties including foraging predominance and competition predominance were analyzed quantificationally. AntcolonySim has simple rules which can simulate nature ant colony foraging realistically. The model is also a reference for discussing emergent behaviors in complex systems by bottom interactional agents.

Keywords

evolutionary computation; optimisation; AntcolonySim; artificial ant colony foraging simulation; bottom interactional agents; competition predominance; complex systems; emergent property analysis; evolution mechanism; foraging predominance; Analytical models; Clocks; Environmental economics; Food technology; Mechanical factors; Modeling; Object oriented programming; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Evolutionary Computation, 2008. CEC 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). IEEE Congress on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1822-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1823-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEC.2008.4631049

Filename

4631049