ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2016
Resilience in social insect infrastructure systems.
Review in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- Age-based spatial distribution of workers is resilient to worker loss in a subterranean termite.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- When being flexible matters: Ecological underpinnings for the evolution of collective flexibility and task allocation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Better tired than lost: Turtle ant trail networks favor coherence over short edges.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Individual error correction drives responsive self-assembly of army ant scaffolds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Quantifying community resilience based on fluctuations in visits to points-of-interest derived from digital trace data.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
- Robust component: a robustness measure that incorporates access to critical facilities under disruptions.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Article
- Integral feedback control is at the core of task allocation and resilience of insect societies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- A distributed algorithm to maintain and repair the trail networks of arboreal ants.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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- Task Allocation of Wasps Governed by Common Stomach: A Model Based on Electric Circuits.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
Both human and insect societies depend on complex and highly coordinated infrastructure systems, such as communication networks, supply chains and transportation networks. Like human-designed infrastructure systems, those of social insects are regularly subject to disruptions such as natural disasters, blockages or breaks in the transportation network, fluctuations in supply and/or demand, outbreaks of disease and loss of individuals. Unlike human-designed systems, there is no deliberate planning or centralized control system; rather, individual insects make simple decisions based on local information. How do these highly decentralized, leaderless systems deal with disruption? What factors make a social insect system resilient, and which factors lead to its collapse? In this review, we bring together literature on resilience in three key social insect infrastructure systems: transportation networks, supply chains and communication networks. We describe how systems differentially invest in three pathways to resilience: resistance, redirection or reconstruction. We suggest that investment in particular resistance pathways is related to the severity and frequency of disturbance. In the final section, we lay out a prospectus for future research. Human infrastructure networks are rapidly becoming decentralized and interconnected; indeed, more like social insect infrastructures. Human infrastructure management might therefore learn from social insect researchers, who can in turn make use of the mature analytical and simulation tools developed for the study of human infrastructure resilience.
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