The repository, ant-pheromone, contains the program, pheromoneModel.py. This program demonstrates that a single pheromone model accounts for certain experimental observations of foraging behavior in big headed ants.

The experimental paper and original two pheromone model is: "The role of multiple pheromones in food recruitment by ants" A. Dussutour, S. C. Nicolis, G. Shephard, M. Beekman, and D. J. T. Sumpter J Exp Biol. 2009;212: 2337–2348. doi:10.1242/jeb.029827

Our paper offering a one pheromone model is: "A Single-Pheromone Model Accounts for Empirical Patterns of Ant Colony Foraging Previously Modeled Using Two Pheromones" submitted to the journal, Cognitive Systems Research.

The program runs in Python 3.