Undergraduate Dissertation Project (2003)

From Ben Shirt-Ediss

My Undergraduate Dissertation project aimed to use the Antworld tool to explore if a group of purely reactive ant-like individuals (who possessed no internal state: their perceptions were directly tied to their actions) could be evolved so that, as a group, they could effectively solve a foraging problem.

The Dissertation was completed at the University of Sheffield, England, in partial fulfillment of BSc Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, submitted May 9th 2003, and supervised by Dr. Amanda Sharkey.

Keywords

Artificial Life, Ant Colony, Swarm Intelligence, Reactive Behaviour, Stigmergy, Neural Networks, Multi Agent Simulation

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Undergraduate Dissertation Project Report:

• Exploring the emergence of foraging strategies in a simulated group of reactive ant-like agents (PDF, 3.2Mb)

Antworld Simulation Tool:

• Antworld JAVA Code (ZIP file of Java classes)
• Antworld Quick Start User Guide (PDF)