Ants build transportation networks that optimize cost and efficiency at the expense of robustness

Efficiency and robustness of ant colony transportation networks

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A review of urban transportation network design problems

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Foraging ants trade off further for faster: use of natural bridges and trunk trail permanency in carpenter ants

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Current-reinforced random walks for constructing transport networks

(2012) Q. Ma et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Structure and formation of ant transportation networks

(2011) T. Latty et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Intraspecific scaling laws of vascular trees

(2011) Y. Huo et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design

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A review of ant algorithms

(2009) R.J. Mullen et al.   EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS

Transit Route Network Design Problem: Review

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Shape and efficiency of wood ant foraging networks

(2008) Jerome Buhl et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Topological efficiency in three-dimensional gallery networks of termite nests

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