Swarm coverage by unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) is essential for inspection, environmental monitoring, and search operations, but remains challenging in three-dimensional domains under limited sensing and communication. Pheromone-based stigmerg...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly vital role in maritime search and rescue (SAR) because they can be deployed quickly, cover large ocean areas, and operate without exposing human crews to risk. Compared with single platforms, multi...
The advent of the swarm makes it feasible to dynamically monitor a wide area for maritime applications. The crucial problems of underwater swarm monitoring are communication and behavior coordination. To tackle these problems, we propose a wide area...
It remains a conundrum in the evolution of sexual communication how the signals and responses can co-ordinate the changes during speciation. The genus Ostrinia contains several closely related species as well as distinctive strains with pheromone pol...
Pheromones are neuronal signals that stimulate conspecific individuals to react to environmental stressors or stimuli. Research on the ascaroside (ascr) pheromones in Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes has made great progress since ascr#1 was...
The detection and processing of chemical stimuli involve coordinated neuronal networks that process sensory information. This allows animals, such as the model species Drosophila melanogaster, to detect food sources and to choose a potential mate. In...
How to distribute and coordinate tasks in cloud computing is a challenging issue, in order to get optimal resource utilization and avoid overload. In this paper, we present a novel approach on load balancing via ant colony optimization (ACO), for bal...
Most animals must defend themselves in order to survive. Defensive behaviour includes detecting predators or intruders, avoiding them by staying low-key or escaping or deterring them away by means of aggressive behaviour, i.e., attacking them. Respon...
Biosynthetic infochemical communication is an emerging scientific field employing molecular compounds for information transmission, labelling, and biochemical interfacing; having potential application in diverse areas ranging from pest management to...
Insect behavior is coordinated mainly by smell through the diverse odor-binding proteins (OBP) that allow them to identify and recognize their environment. Sensory information collected through smell is then analyzed and interpreted in the brain, all...
Efficient task co-ordination is an important problem in multirobot systems. The explicit programming of each robot to perform specific tasks (e.g., cleaning) is too cumbersome and inefficient, as the areas to serve in a map may vary with time. Moreov...
“Calling behaviour” is a stereotyped rhythmic motor pattern displayed by female moths, by which they emit the sex pheromone to attract of conspecific males. Calling occurs through a squeezing mechanism based on the turtleneck-like folding...
Under stressful conditions, the early larvae of C. elegans enter dauer diapause, a non-aging period, driven by the seemingly opposite influence of ascaroside pheromones (ASCRs) and steroid hormone dafachronic acids (DAs). However, the molecular basis...
Wildfires pose a growing global threat, demanding rapid, scalable, and autonomous response strategies. This study proposes HG-MADQN (Heuristic-Guided Multi-Agent Deep Q-Network), a hybrid framework that integrates reinforcement learning with biologic...
The Internet of Things (IoT) faces significant challenges in the requirements of sensitive task latency, reasonable resource allocation and reliability for resource transactions. This paper introduces a novel method for road resource allocation in th...
The striped barnacle, Amphibalanus amphitrite, is a simultaneous hermaphrodite crustacean that broods eggs. The eggs are physically and enzymatically cleaned in the mantle by the barnacle to manage biofouling during incubation. There is no physiologi...
Wireless underwater sensor networks have various applications—such as ocean exploration and deep-sea disaster monitoring—making them a hot topic in the research field. To cover a larger area and gather more-precise information, building l...
Multi-robot systems are popularly distributed in logistics, transportation, and other fields. We propose a distributed multi-mobile robot obstacle-avoidance algorithm to coordinate the path planning and motion navigation among multiple robots and bet...
Hornets and honey bees have a long history of coevolution resulting in a plethora of captivating adaptations and counteradaptations between predator and prey. From simple physiological mechanisms to complex behavioral strategies, some Vespa hornets h...
In this paper, we propose a graph-transformational approach to swarm computation that is flexible enough to cover various existing notions of swarms and swarm computation, and it provides a mathematical basis for the analysis of swarms with respect t...
An original swarm-based method for coordination of groups of mobile robots with a focus on the self-organization and self-adaptation of the groups is presented in this paper. The method is a nature-inspired decentralized algorithm that uses artificia...
Integrated process planning and scheduling (IPPS) is an intricate and vital issue in smart manufacturing, requiring the coordinated optimization of both process plans and production schedules under multiple resource and precedence constraints. This p...
To address the problems of low efficiency and poor real-time performance in underwater acoustic modeling, as well as the requirement of maximizing search coverage for underwater target search path planning, this paper proposed an efficient path plann...
Mate finding and courtship involve complex interactions that require close coordination between individuals of the opposite gender. Well-organized signalling systems, sometimes involving a combination of signal modalities, are required to convey spec...
Enterococcus species are known for their ability to form biofilms, which contributes to their survival in extreme environments and involvement in persistent bacterial infections, especially in the case of multi-drug-resistant strains. This review aim...
In intralogistics, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) operate without predefined paths, leading to complex traffic patterns and potential conflicts that impact system efficiency. This paper proposes a bio-inspired optimization method for autonomously ge...
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) must simultaneously satisfy stringent reliability, latency, and sustainability targets under highly dynamic urban and highway mobility. Existing solutions typically optimise one or two dimensions (link stability, cl...
Spodoptera frugiperda is a major transboundary migratory pest under global alert by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The accurate identification and counting of trapped adults in the field are key technologies for ac...
Despite (or perhaps because of) intensive multidisciplinary research, opinions on the optimal number of species recognised within the Eurasian orchid genus Ophrys range from nine to at least 400. The lower figure of nine macrospecies is based primari...