Emergence of Cooperation in a Bio-Inspired Multi-Agent Simulation of Army Ants

Abstract

This paper presents a multi-agent simulation inspired from army ants. Several studies have been conducted on Bio-inspired methods such as the idea presented in this paper; especially, social insect’s cooperation has been widely discussed in Artificial Intelligence circles. Interestingly, researchers in biology have discovered the fact that army ants dig holes or gulfs in the route from a food source to the nest. This is a behavior helps to optimize the food gathering performance of the ants. We have noted that this behavior is sometimes useful in engineering applications. The purpose of this study is to understand this biological behavior by creating a computer simulation