Ants live in organized societies with a marked division of labor among workers, but little is
known about how this division of labor is generated. We used a tracking system to …

Animal social networks are shaped by multiple selection pressures, including the need to
ensure efficient communication and functioning while simultaneously limiting disease …

Division of labor is an emergent and dynamic process that intimately mingles social dynamics
and individual behavior. Individuals engage in work, and social interactions between …

The ant Camponotus fellah has been used in several behavioral and life history studies. An
important factor that affects the genetic structure and division of labour within a colony is …

Collective behaviours in societies such as those formed by ants are thought to be the result
of distributed mechanisms of information processing and direct decision-making by well-…

Human social interactions are regulated by moral norms that define individual obligations and
rights. These norms are enforced by punishment of transgressors and reward of followers. …

… 2 Dataset The dataset we use in this paper was collected by Mersch et al. [10]. They recorded,
using an automated video tracking system, the activity of six colonies that are composed …

… We used the tracking system developed by Mersch et al. (Mersch et al. 2013) to compare
the behavior of single ants and ants kept in groups of ten individuals. Ants were tagged with …

Azo dyes constitute the largest group of colorants used in industry and can pass through
municipal waste water plants nearly unchanged due to their resistance to aerobic treatment, …

… In 2013, Danielle P. Mersch, Alessandro Crespi and Laurent Keller of the University of
Lausanne developed a fancy new technique to simultaneously and automatically track the spatial …