| Dr. Carl Anderson |
| Anderson/Interface Visiting Assistant Professor in Natural Systems |
| School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) |
| Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205, USA |
| Email: carl@isye.gatech.edu |
| Tel: 404-385-4082 / Fax: 404-894-2301 |
Complex adaptive systems(with insect societies as model system) |
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| Division of labor | Cooperation and teamwork | Task partitioning | Information use | Biological complexity | New methodologies |
| Threshold models | Teams in animal societies | Natural history & modeling | Analysis of honeybee signals | Self-organization | Metric for task complexity |
| Specialization and elitism | Intermediate level parts | Fieldwork on leaf-cutter ants | Improving information quality | Individual vs. social complexity | New home range analysis method |
| Parallels with industry | Evolutionary transitions | Analysis of behavioral catalogues | |||
GaTech Biology departmental seminar "Complexity and work organization in insect societies," given 6 September, 2002
Natural systems presentation. Given to the natural systems group, 11th December 2002
| Email: carl@isye.gatech.edu | Updated: 9th June 2002 |