Dresden 2006 – scientific programme

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SYSS: Structure Formation and Self-Organization in non-equilibrium Systems

SYSS 4: Structure Formation and Self-Organization in non-equilibrium Systems III

SYSS 4.4: Invited Talk

Friday, March 31, 2006, 11:45–12:15, HSZ 04

Self-organization and collective decision making in animal societies — •Jean-Louis Deneubourg — Unit if Social Ecology, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium

This talk gives an overview on the collective decision making process in animal societies. Experiments with ants and other social insects show the formation of various self-organized patterns. As an example, route choice experiments with ants indicate that crowding is avoided by a change of the temporal organization of the ants.