1.   Apply ant behavior to the traveling salesman problem, however, and solutions start to present themselves.

2.   Darley of BiosGroup has applied ant behavior to solving scheduling problems in complex manufacturing settings and to routing and production decisions at a natural gas company in Texas.

3.   The book, based on her field studies in remote southeastern Arizona, examines ant behavior and how colonies function and expand without any central control.

4.   Understanding ant behavior could ultimately help lead to more efficient use of the Web.