Bio-Inspired Computing and Networking

Chapter 1

Animal Models

for Computing

and Communications:

Past Approaches

and Future Challenges

Karen L. Bales and Carolyn D. Kitzmann

Contents

1.1 General Principles of Animal Communication ............................. 4

1.2 Current Bio-Inspired Modeling Approaches................................ 7

1.2.1 InsectModelsforCommunicationandRobotics................... 7

1.2.2 Noninsect, Bio-Inspired Models for Communication

andRobotics......................................................... 9

1.3 Challenges for Future Bio-Inspired Models................................. 10

1.4 Primates and Other Socially Complex Mammals as Biological Models .... 11

1.4.1 Challenge: ...