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Asma of Since Canmuicatian 53 Social Insects Shaping Our Future Abstract Social sects ike ams, bees, waspe are mysterious ‘retro the compfex secety they build nspte of ‘heir canton ical sonplicisy, they have survived ate sinost dominated Furth for some 130 milion rears Recent recarehes on thet behavior has tsplved the thvelozoint of sone novel enter progres hich romise to Solve some of the ver? complicate problems ofthemadeen cies Introduction Soci mses lke ams emits, many bees, an Somie wasps have a real family fe which is very aunplex. They live-in -commitnities, snd he meme-s of community depend on ame another Inerestingly their bouy argentvation is very situple wwths very p-imicivetbraa. They atived on Batis the Mid Cretaceous period at tround {101i 130 milion yesrsago andare sll thriving wit woul much [Researches on socal Insects ike ants and bees have veal they havea very meager mntlizence, Pat their 2olones can selve problems unthinkable for at individual eet such ae Boing the shortest path the best food source, allocating workers to ulerent lasks, or Jefending’ 4 torritay irom ‘neighbour Interestingly average eslony a antshas mere ta 8 Jak amt, Yet no ore usin charps of the eclony. The amas “qusen” ant hes no role but o acts breeder, Rest members alter their duties aecording the reguiremeal, Scimtst elicwe hat the preponde-snce of these groups of inset is because of the three qualities that they ate endowed wih 3} Ability coacapeto the changing envinon nent 5) Robusimess fe; nerfocting the task even if some ind viduis BF Recolony als bility to self oxganiee, independent of any ‘entralized corteol. The unde yi lator tt contro sis unigue actions ealied Stamergy” ‘orselfeomauization tough sn vizoneten \ VOLUME 3, NO. 1, JANUARY, 2012 Subha Sankar Ghosh Social Insects and Our Future [New findings an the hetsvior of ans and honeybees ‘te giving suprising results which san ever be applied to salve complisated problems ofthe mndemn society Taking eve frum these fincings. NING: aiante lige Soutrest Ablines, Unilever Megeaw Hill Hewitt Pckued have Aneto. implement them a their brgimizaions, According to trem, shese principe hhayenoconly lelped thom to rumtheir opsrationciare elicit. but alse ty sve millions oF dollars Anal. Suet ithe inpact ofthese ve findings Ut experts predict thet the socal insect intsligeace going toshape cur lives anal make it peter the days tovome, ‘As such twill be pennant to go through sn of tie Endings that tave Hes ebseretn sense which can revolutionize ar lives. Ability to Find the Shortest Path from the Food Sourceto the Nest Iv has been abserved experimentally that ants chose the shortest path te each the fond (fom the thaugh thee may be more an ae path Scientists preciet that ‘his ean only be possible by the application af the priniple of eT ureaniration, As form and maintain ine to thee bo source by lapis trail ot pheromone, -e. chemical to which can be sensed by cllier menibers af the sire species. They deposit a certain mount urpheconxme write walking, and cach ant prefers to fellow a divecion seh ft 54 Py pagation pisermone. This enables die am eelony io quiekly ind fhe shortest route. The ist ans te retry should heal be shes om the shores role, $0 his the fits 16 bee fcteh diction). Thus aber sats wil he mote acted toths rue than to leer ones nt yet doubly marke, ‘which meu it will become ‘usked wih pheromone, Soon n ‘hove this route. The voletiity of the pheromon fssares thao ail rams on the mre Wich fs Tosgranc assueh tog illchose that outs ( aatieedaniieae 2 Saflyare basa on this new soung elporithes is popalarly known ss AnaNer. lathe AntNetelgorthr, outing is delersined by means of vary comple Interactions cf forwnl and backward nator feloration agents ("nts"), The idea bene this sub- division of agents isto aliw tle sarkward ants to wilize the uselul information gathered by the forward nis the i a source cesaton An Ne? teh its numer of interesting p-opertes: tt works fully dtr buted say 8 hghly adaptive o network tind tafe hangs, uses lightweight mole agents (Called ans} for avtve path sampling. isro>ust tn agent Failures, povices mlpach avting and sbteratieal lakes care ef dali" load speadiag.AneNets Pérlormance as beet extensively tes n sna, Considering ifferen networks ndea re pastes. ard fas aoen comired several state of the st outing algorhins, interestingly 'AmiNeU has. largely ‘outperformed all its competitors Maptieity and. haste, “Anette tested insmal physical neivargs contin performance inraalsocrls test Congestion Free Tetecommunication he unique feature of the pierorione associated ant behav ioe Has inspired researche the teeeunn wing vf Hewill Packats to develop & ‘nodified compster program called Ant ~ Based ‘Couerol (ABC). tt workson he sla peiniple a AntNet. in thi program, ely one class of ant afe launched frat the stuncos lo varius Hestinaions 3 ‘olan Hime interval hich ge. destoyed of eachire the nod, Te quickest tbe destroyed roproscats the tinesngestd route, Chie a sucess search i ade the snfrmatien is then deposited in the nodes via ddiglal pheromones sich tien inflvence. te ‘sequent bhi ioe tha is elated "othe task In de ‘sve ol te, the beltv ioe ee tempor ri store that ray be used auain in fire, if tie nee arise, etaforceneot by sia agen su ot muncongested Fath azrcts the rhome calls fellow he ale pass rowel the uneongested route, Carsersely hes path gots comgestee t3e pa is abort! hy lessor Teirficcement anda new ancengested pais iseovered hy the agents, Asareul ts congest on ‘elecommonication system cout he d teen the tafe is high. Pneoursged hy MNCs like Brits) Telecom, MCI World Con, Telecom nave sited nplemerting the Fran program “her felscommuniasion network No Traffic Jam ‘noite version of AntNee software has been one for dynamic routing of watfc in a city where in a Sinulited environinent vehicles se avi hus {UiMorane roads based on te led oF walle In orn to Sienitiae the process. ar ficial ents — Pr. pagation {ural of Seine Cammencion 55 sve in a visual see: notvork, This anol is Sapplemented with wet da rom the Irae by the ‘arsthemecivestinough the vse ols ete niga Thic enables the agents (soil sms to divert the refi vm eongestedreutes and isproves the av eling time. The slain environment makes Mt possible to Se the effeel in diferent cies or in sovident or ‘ereeicy veunstanees, when because ofa Gazer, ‘oads beccime available er are heavily sand most of the divers ce got comsed, of the abeve propram can be aapli fora walickir , Southwest Alias, ea ating 1FUSA, his al-ealy inplemnented this echnoingy © solve i eanga andling problem anghave gained ae ‘tan Onli drs nasil oan Curent search nts fed have shownthat-heathne system could be used for Witeless communcstion Setverk and even Tor guiding unmanned military robots waar Flexibility in Task Allocation CContay to she poptlae notion, lot of dlexbity has Tourd among ese iaseeis, Fos insta, a a form several kinds of jab. When the colony swbiea was Goin housekeeping cuty may sudden'y become frnger Cr the eolorys teritory size exaands or contrite, titer ants change the nurs of thee serutiny, futon: Siw larkind nehichavier can he seen incase of Moreyboes were the use bees can even 0 foe orang the statin deren so fdscoverss new food souree, aan This principle his een the inspiration bind the develeprre of sore progr thal wal allo ae phebweenaseletiiies Pvecded Sinilary, hon the ane canis food te te nest hey flow a relay moceanism, Infrestingy the danse pb which single ent wl cry the fonds oh Fed ‘isccemingly simple servis ns ener Ha Kesouyee munogers of eempanie ice Merl jockbuster Noe ee to dante the vone vst Spin ther acorn praca pres Tverksepinginmsndhecilerendal abit oe Sh thasboen udhatelletingthebest andes iste voces the on of the chain process Bans Inoreasa the oral pod by 308 No Top Down Approach, Only Best Idea Flourish Stperinornthesoeityafsocal nso. Ithes ea Eolnd in bes that they hake decison by sking 2 siversity of option tat hos boon proven! by srt tees though thelr ‘tangle dance, Then 2 ‘tee competion anomy dilfren opin leds Tina an effective mectanisy is devised tna dove echoreestozhoose be best pon Siar king of manage il ha beer apie ins fur edi ean! consi called Capital One where ner bas osm cmos to give good ile ‘Once any oughly ane a Fora oc SS Stns ae Pe ns a ee TS is analyzed th Ties at get the gic ne fs return thcoriginatorattheidea satay revarded ‘hough. thie approach dase ot match seis the cormactinal wandgeneat practice. but bie approach fas alread sated showin some very encorazg ‘eval. Scicmtste uve found that he sects Epproschtowaresexplovhing «new food sour ay item one spies to asohee andthe dering feasois, if Gouipred progery may give valle tess to che maragers regarding potetal marke csplstaton Conctusion Swarm intelligence lasts «nubs of advantages duce the use of mobile agents tl stigoiegy Tec 1. Scalability: Population oftreagentscan be adapted According iathenenearksie. " 2. Fault toleranes: Swarm intligert povesses do not rely cu cuutalized cut nielasn, Thetelore theless of few noes or links doer no resale Masih flue: but wher teas to gowe Scalable deprcdatio 3. Adupation: Agents can change die oe reproduce Scvtrding tonetwork changes. 4 Spee: Cianges in the netwoik canbe propagated ery fs 5. Modi arity Agents act independently. 0° ether nehwork ayers 8, Autonomy Lite or no husen supecvision is Sequired 2, Parallelism: Ageot's operations ane inbersly sara 56 Notwithstanding the number of intereseng apolications presented, a numer of open problems reed (9 he aeressed and solved before that of ent Algorithms becomes a mature fel. For example, it ‘yl be interesting to give an answer the following seston: How do we deline “aaifeial ans" How complex sould they be? Should Ciey alle identical? What asic capabilites stould they be giver? Should they be able to learn? Should tuey be surely reactive? How local shuld ther envirenment knewledgebe? Should hegre blot eammanieaediretly” Lye, what tye of informetion should they communicate? [Even though the field of Ant based algothms isi its rnascent slage, yet researchers predil that as more Sudies are consiacet on these insects, we may get some unthinkable sesuls that may change oar outlook ‘an our fate ves, Perhaps these sees rend us of ‘theo proverb:"Natureisthe best teacher References 1. wun wikipedia. ory 2. 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