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                  Buffon's Needle v1.0 for Swarm 2.2

      Copyright James Marshall 2003. Freely distributable under the
      GNU General Public Licence

This model is designed to investigate assessment of nest site size by
ants (particularly L. albipennis), as described in Mallon & Franks
(2000) and Mugford et al. (2001), particularly why a two-pass
assessment strategy is used instead of a one-pass strategy. The model
was used to produce the results presented in Marshall et al.  (2003).

References

* Mallon, E. B., Franks, N. R.: Ant's Estimate Area Using
  Buffon's Needle. Proc. Royal Soc. B 267 (2000) 765-770

* Marshall, J. A. R., Kovacs, T., Dornhaus, A., Franks, N. R.:
  Simulating the Evolution of Ant Behaviour in Evaluating Nest
  Sites. Under submission to the 7th European Conference on Artificial
  Life (2003)

* Mugford, S. T., Mallon, E. B. Franks, N. R.: The Accuracy of
  Buffon's Needle: A Rule of Thumb Used by Ants to Estimate
  Area. Behav. Ecol. 12 (2001) 655-658