The Use of Ideas of Information Theory for Studying “Language” and Intelligence in Ants

The Use of Ideas of Information Theory for Studying “Language” and Intelligence in Ants

In this review we integrate results of long term experimental study on ant “language” and intelligence which were fully based on fundamental ideas of Information Theory, such as the Shannon entropy, the Kolmogorov complexity, and the Shannon’s equation connecting the length of a message (l) and its...

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Main Authors: Zhanna Reznikova, Boris Ryabko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-11-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
information theory
Shannon theory
entropy
Kolmogorov complexity
ants’ language
communication and cognition in animals
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/11/4/836/

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