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Social insects such as ants, bees, termites, and wasps, provide us with a powerful metaphor for creating decentralized problem-solving systems composed of simple, interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social insects lies not in complex individual capabilities but in networks of interactions that exist among individuals and between individuals and their colonies.
The daily problems solved by a social insect colony include the following: finding food, building or extending a nest, dividing labor among nest mates, feeding the brood, cleaning the nest, responding to external challenges, and spreading alarms. Many of these problems have counterparts in the business world. The collective behavior of social insects is not only decentralized, it is also flexible and robust. Flexibility allows adaptation to changing environments, while robustness enables the colony to function even though some individuals may fail to perform their tasks.
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