Theraulaz Guy, Gautrais Jacques, Camazine Scott, Deneubourg Jean-Louis
CNR-FRE 2382, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France.
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2003 Jun 15;361(1807):1263-82. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1198.
Many of the collective activities performed by social insects result in the formation of complex spatio-temporal patterns. Without centralized control, workers are able to work together and collectively tackle tasks far beyond the abilities of any one individual. The resulting patterns produced by a colony are not explicitly coded at the individual level, but rather emerge from nonlinear interactions between individuals or between individuals and their environment. We present a few selected examples to illustrate some of the basic mechanisms used by social insects, such as templates, stigmergy and self-organization. These mechanisms can be used in combination to organize pattern formation at the colony level.
群居昆虫所进行的许多集体活动都会形成复杂的时空模式。在没有集中控制的情况下，工蚁能够协同工作，共同完成远超任何单个个体能力的任务。蚁群产生的这些模式并非在个体层面明确编码，而是源于个体之间或个体与其环境之间的非线性相互作用。我们给出一些精选的例子来说明群居昆虫所使用的一些基本机制，比如模板、 stigmergy（这词可能有误，推测是stigmergy，可译为“痕迹学”）和自组织。这些机制可以结合起来用于在蚁群层面组织模式形成。
