Purposive behavior of honeybees as the basis of an experimental search engine

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Reginald L. Walker, Purposive behavior of honeybees as the basis of an experimental search engine (Springer Berlin / Heidelberg)

Published online: 20 July 2006
Abstract The foraging behavior of active honeybee colonies serves as a model for Web explorers that are reactive, proactive, and robust. The Web explorers are developed to forage a simulated information ecosystem—the Internet—for useful information. Each explorer is designed to detect and report dynamic changes within the infrastructure of the Internet to its Web explorer dispatcher, which is responsible for coordinating thousands of explorers. Experimental results are presented.
Keywords Honeybee search strategies - Information ecosystem dynamics -Evolutionary computation - Information sharing

I have always been a bee fan myself.