Dyanamics of Social Queues

2013/05/29 by Toyizumi, Hiroshi, Field, Jeremy
#FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE) #Probability (math.PR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1305.6717

Abstract

Queues formed by social wasps to inherit the dominant position in the nest are analyzed by using a transient quasi-birth-and-death process. We show that the extended nest life time due to division of labor between queen and helpers has a big impact for the nest productivity.

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