Written by Simon Garnier on May 19, 2011 – 9:09 am
Yesterday, PLoS ONE published my last article co-authored with my good friend Alexandre Campo, his students Olivier Dédriche and Mouhcine Zekkri, and Marco Dorigo (do I need to introduce him?). In this paper, we present a self-organizing mechanism that allows a group of individuals (in this case robots) to select a resource that matches its [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on December 10, 2010 – 10:01 am
In a recent paper published by The Journal of Experimental Biology, Chris Reid, David Sumpter and Madeleine Beekman demonstrate that colonies of the Argentine ant Linepithema humile can solve a complex combinatorial optimisation problem called "Towers of Hanoi". Hereafter is the summary of this paper, also available on Swarm References:
Natural systems are a source of [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on June 10, 2010 – 9:49 am
It's not necessary to introduce Mark Moffett, the "Dr. Bugs" as he called himself on his website. The Los Angeles Times recently published an interview of this talented researcher, writer, adventurer, photograph… You can read it at this address: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-sci-ants-20100529,0,7987527,full.story.
Written by Simon Garnier on April 8, 2010 – 10:25 am
Yesterday (April 7th 2010), Science Now (the news section of Science Magazine) published an article by Dave Mosher on our work on pedestrian crowds. The article summarizes the paper we published the same day in PLoS ONE. Hereafter are an excerpt of the Science Article and the abstract of our PLoS ONE paper:
Secret of Annoying [...]