Strong parallels with ant-foraging behaviour, which should surprise no one. My PhD thesis was basically on these similarities, how a swarm can detect quorum and

Strong parallels with ant-foraging behaviour, which should surprise no one. My PhD thesis was basically on these similarities, how a swarm can detect quorum and the functionally identical computational algorithm Stochastic Diffusion Search. Don't be scared off by the name, you can implement it in about the time it takes to explain the name. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18668000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18668000