The Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (ABC) has hypothesised that much human
decision-making can be described by simple algorithmic process models (heuristics). This …

Trail pheromones do more than simply guide social insect workers from point A to point B.
Recent research has revealed additional ways in which they help to regulate colony …

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 …

Complex systems research is becoming ever more important in both the natural and social
sciences. It is commonly implied that there is such a thing as a complex system, different …

Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the
perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of …

How do people make decisions when time is limited, information unreliable, and the future
uncertain? Based on the work of Nobel laureate Herbert Simon and with the help of …

Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding
predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment …

Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning
of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is …

Construction behaviour occurs across the entire spectrum of the animal kingdom and affects
the survival of both builders and other organisms associated with them. Animal Architecture …

When its nest is damaged, a colony of the ant Leptothorax albipennis skillfully emigrates to
the best available new site. We investigated how this ability emerges from the behaviors …