ABSTRACT
Foraging is a complex task, particularly in a social animal. This chapter will focus on one critical aspect of social insect foraging, namely, navigation, without reiterating all the important aspects related to social insects’ communication and foraging behaviors. I will briey provide an overview
Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 293 Medium-Range Navigation ............................................................................................................ 295 Searching for a Random Location ................................................................................................. 295
Random Walk ............................................................................................................................. 295 Idiothetic Directed Walk ............................................................................................................297 Allothetic Directed Walk ............................................................................................................299 Lévy Walk ..................................................................................................................................299 Searching for Home ................................................................................................................... 301
Finding Home ................................................................................................................................302 PI Models ...................................................................................................................................302 View-Based Homing ..................................................................................................................306 Dynamical Maps ........................................................................................................................309
Foraging as a Group .......................................................................................................................309 Measuring Success .....................................................................................................................309 Division of Labor ....................................................................................................................... 310 Information Quality ................................................................................................................... 311 Genetic Diversity ....................................................................................................................... 311 Resource Quality: Top-Down IFD Models ................................................................................ 312 Resource Quality: Bottom-Up IFD Models ............................................................................... 315
Agent-Based Modeling .................................................................................................................. 315 Membrane Systems .................................................................................................................... 317 Communicating Stream X-Machines ......................................................................................... 317
Future Directions ........................................................................................................................... 319 References ...................................................................................................................................... 319
