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Ant colony algorithm has three steps: pheromone initialization, building tour, updating pheromone.For the ant colony algorithm, path selection influence a little by the pheromone initialization. In order to get a better result, the pheromone value is always initialized slightly higher than the one released in each iteration.We have taken the initial value of pheromone as τij(0)= m/Cmin where , τij(t) is the residual pheromone on the path between node i and node j at moment t. m is the number of…

Dr Deborah Gordon tech talk, “How Ant Colonies Get Things Done” she presents her findings from studying a collection of ant colonies in New Mexico for the past 25 years. More specifically, she focus on the Red Carpenter ant species. While colonies of ants may look at first glance like simply a bunch of ants running around aimlessly, a closer and more careful look shows substantial social organization. A colony can solve problems unthinkable for individual ants, such as finding the shortest…

After reading the essays “The Myth of the Ant Queen”, “Project Classroom Makeover”, and “The Naked Citadel” by Steven Johnson, Cathy Davidson, and Susan Faludi, readers may have spotted that collective knowledge, different systems of organization, and the three terms identity, conformity and group mentality, are mentioned in their respective essays. Interestingly enough, these three completely different essays still have ideas that can work together to address a point: collective knowledge can…

work for the common good of the community. It also shows that how our actions can greatly affect all the communities that we are a part of. There are many beliefs of the types of government that the ant colony should have. Each has their pros and cons, but only one type truly recognises every ant in the colony. General Mandible believes that the colony should have an autocratic government. This is evident because he wants the princess to be the…

against its suppressor is established. The film Bug 's Life demonstrates Marx 's theory. In the movie Flik 's colony is being oppressed by Hopper and his gang. Hopper tells the colony that they will provide protection for them as long as the working ants provide them with food. However when Flik accidentally ruins the harvest that colony has just provided. Hopper then demands them to provide twice the food or they will no longer protect the colony. This causes a great distress within the colony…

Theme: Insects Activity Name: Pattern Worms Activity category: Math, fine motor Area of room: Small table Focus of Children and Rationale: According to common core children in Ms. B’s kindergarten class must learn one to one correspondence and be able to build simple patterns. Some students enjoy building with Legos (e.g. James, Malik, and Parte). Some girls like to use Legos to build a pretend houses and color coordinate blocks together. Although, the girl’s fine motor skills are more developed…

Novels can do many things to the reader, they can also make them feel countless different ways. Some books make one aware of a problem they did not know about before. Or they can make them aware of the severity of a problem that they did not know was very serious. Novels can also inspire and give readers hope about something they thought was hopeless. At the same time it can ignite a passion in the reader that they did not know existed. Novels like Zoo, this is a book that can do all of those…

What is reality? Is there a connection to your brain and the world around you? Is it really what you think it is? Current knowledge about our bodies state that the brain sees the world by using millions of stimuli around us to perceive the feelings of cold, soft, bright, and countless others. Take a look at this sunset, you see the sunset in front of you but when you leave the area. Was there really a sunset at the time period. Your mind says yes since you recall being there but is there…

Hot and Cold spots of selection: Parasitoid attack of fungus-growing ants Abstract: It is known that fungus-growing ants, and their integral mutualism with fungus, allowed for their exploitation of new niches; which resulted in diversified lineages. However, there may have been other factors that refined these lineages into the resulting clades and species we see today. Diapriidae wasps are extremely common in the Neotropics; and poorly understood phylogenetically and ecologically. However,…

All the sudden, I feel like a million pounds is pressing on my back. I am surrounded by darkness and suffocating. I go to move my legs and find that I now have what feels like an additional fourteen. This isn't a big deal to me, after all, I do lucid dream often. This is just a dream of course. After squirming my way out of a tight spot, I notice that the darkness is simply the sheets covering my face.I can now breathe better. I can't help but laugh at my stupidity and I often enjoy controlling…