Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030683108
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Unemployed foragers

The main task of unemployed foragers is to find and exploit food sources. There are two types of unemployed foragers: scouts and onlookers. Scouts begin to search for new food sources near the hive; Onlookers is waiting in the hive and to find the nectar source by sharing relevant information with the leader (employed foragers). In general, the average number of scouts is about 5–10% of the colony.

In the formation of searching the food sources, the exchange of information between bees is the most important part. The dancing area is the most important information exchange place in the hive. The dancing of the bees is called a waggle dance. The information of food source is shared with other bees in the dancing area, leading to express the profitability of food source on the dance floor. Therefore, the onlookers can observe a large number of food sources and choose more profitable sources due to some internal motivation or possible external clue. The probability of bees being recruited is proportional to the profitability of the food source.

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