Reposted by Sachin Suresh
Pre-print alert 🚨🐜🐝! Social insect foraging is far from perfect. @dornhaus.bsky.social and I designed an agent-based model to examine how different error types affect collective foraging outcomes and whether communication mitigates or exacerbates these effects. See the thread below! (1/6).
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Frequent errors are the worst: robustness to individual failures in collective foraging
The collective behavior of complex systems emerges from the actions and interactions of their individual components. But what if these individuals make mistakes, or deviate from behavior tuned to lead...
