Title
Traffic patterns and flow characteristics in an ant trail model
Abstract
We have constructed a minimal cellular automaton model for simulating traffic on preexisting ant trails. Uni- as well as bidirectional trails are investigated and characteristic patterns in the distribution of workers on the trail are identified. Some of these patterns have already been observed empirically. They give rise to unusual flow characteristics which are also discussed. The question of possible functions of the observed traffic patterns and the resulting flow characteristics will be treated for simplified biological scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11839088_27
ANTS Workshop
Keywords
Field
DocType
resulting flow characteristic,observed empirically,simulating traffic,preexisting ant,characteristic pattern,minimal cellular automaton model,observed traffic pattern,ant trail model,biological scenario,unusual flow characteristic,possible function,cellular automaton
Cellular automaton,Asymmetric simple exclusion process,Traffic flow,Computer science,Flow (psychology),Swarm intelligence,Artificial intelligence,Formicoidea
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4150
0302-9743
3-540-38482-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander John120.84
Andreas Schadschneider212124.37
Debashish Chowdhury366.27
Katsuhiro Nishinari418947.27