Publications

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Journal publications

On social insects. Robert Planqué, Jan Bouwe van den Berg and Nigel R. Franks. 2010. Recruitment strategies and colony size in social insects. PLoS ONE 5 (8): e11664. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011664. Ana B. Sendova-Franks, Rebecca K. Hayward, Benjamin Wulf, Thomas Klimek, Richard James, Robert Planqué, Nicholas F. Britton, and Nigel R. Franks. 2009. Emergency networking: famine relief in ant colonies. Anim. Behav. 79 (2): 473-485. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.11.035. James A.R. Marshall, Rafal Bogacz, Anna Dornhaus, Robert Planqué, Tim Kovacs, Nigel Franks. 2009. On optimal decision making in brains and social insect colonies. Proc. Roy. Soc. Interface 6: 1065-1074 pdf. Robert Planqué, François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont, Nigel Franks, Tim Kovacs, James Marshall. 2007. Why do house-hunting ants recruit in both directions? Naturwissenschaften 94 (11): 911-918. journal reprint. Robert Planqué, Anna Dornhaus, Nigel Franks, Tim Kovacs, James Marshall. 2006. Weighting waiting in collective decision making. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 61 (3): 347-356. Abstract, pdf, journal reprint. On community ecology. Sarina Macfadyen, Rachel Gibson, Andrew Polaszek, Rebecca J. Morris, Paul G. Craze, Robert Planqué, William O.C. Symondson, Jane Memmott. 2009. Do differences in food web structure between organic and conventional farms affect the ecosystem service of pest control? 2009. Ecology Letters 12: 229-238. abstract (with links to PDFs etc.). Robert Planqué and Hans Slabbekoorn. Spectral overlap in songs and temporal overlap in a Peruvian bird assemblage. 2008. Ethology 114: 262-271. journal reprint. On mathematics and medicine. Sander Idema, Clemens M. F. Dirven,Victor W. van Beusechem, Jan E. Carette, Robert Planqué, David P. Noske, Martine L. M. Lamfers, W. Peter Vandertop. 2010. Objective determination of the oncolytic potency of conditionally-replicating adenoviruses using mathematical modeling. J. Gene Medicine 12: 564-571. On defense strategies against cuckoo parasitism. Robert Planqué, Nick F. Britton, Nigel R. Franks, and Mark A. Peletier. 2002. The adaptiveness of defense strategies against cuckoo parasitism. Bull. Math. Biol. 64: 1045-1068. Abstract, ps, pdf. Nick F. Britton, Robert Planqué, Nigel R. Franks. 2007. Evolution of defence portfolios in exploiter-victim systems. Bull. Math. Biol.. 69: 957-988. journal reprint On twisted rods, membranes, energy minimization. Gert H.M. van der Heijden, Mark A. Peletier and Robert Planqué. 2007. On end rotation for open rods undergoing large deformations. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 65: 385-402 . Abstract, ps, pdf, journal reprint Gert H.M. van der Heijden, Mark A. Peletier and Robert Planqué. 2006. Self-contact for rods on cylinders. Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. 182 (3): 471-551. Abstract, pdf, journal link. Mark A. Peletier, Robert Planqué and Matthias Röger. 2007. Sobolev regularity via the rate of convergence of convolutions and Jensen's inequality. Annali della Scuola Superiore Normale di Pisa. 6: 499-510. pdf, ps.

Photo by Tom Richardson Photo by Geir Rudolfsen

Conference proceedings, book chapters

• Marshall, J. A. R., Bogacz, R., Dornhaus, A., Franks, N. R., Kovacs, T. & Planqué, R. (2006) Similar models of optimal decision making in social insect colonies and in the primate brain. In: T. Kovacs & J. Marshall (eds.) Proceedings of AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems (vol. 3), 205. AISB Press
• Planqué, R. Marshall, J. A. R., Kovacs, T., Dechaume-Moncharmont, F. X., Franks, N. R., & Sendova-Franks, A. (2006) It takes two to tango: the role of late recruitment in collective decision making. In: T. Kovacs & J. Marshall (eds.) Proceedings of AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems (vol. 3), 207. AISB Press
• Marshall, J. A. R., Bogacz, R., Planqué, R., Kovacs, T. & Franks, N. R. (2009) On optimal decision making in brains and social insect colonies. In: Seth et al. (eds.) Modelling Natural Action Selection. Cambridge University Press (in press).

Other publications

• Bob Planqué & Willem-Pier Vellinga. Xeno-canto: a 21st century way of appreciating bird song. 2008. Neotropical Birding 3, 17-23. PDF available upon request.

My PhD thesis in Mathematics, under supervision of Prof. dr. M.A. Peletier, carried out at CWI in Amsterdam.

• Robert Planqué. Constraints in applied mathematics. Rods, membranes, and cuckoos. Eindhoven University, April 2005. pdf.

• Robert Planqué, The role of knot theory in DNA research. MSc. thesis, Leiden University, 2000. pdf.

From the Eurodiffusion Project:

• Erick Vermeulen en de Studiegroep Wiskunde met de Industrie (Geertje Hek, Misja Nuyens, Mark Peletier, Bob Planqué, Harmen van der Ploeg en Guido Terra),
  Het grote internationale eurodiffusie-experiment (in Dutch), Natuur & Techniek 01 (2002) p.11 and 22-25. pdf with pictures, html with corresponding page in section Actueel,
  
• Geertje Hek, Misja Nuyens, Harmen van der Ploeg, Bob Planqué, Erick Vermeulen, Het grote internationale eurodiffusie-experiment (in Dutch), Natuur & Techniek 11 (2002) p.56-62. pdf, ps
• Misja Nuyens en Bob Planqué, De wiskunde achter de eurodiffusie (in Dutch), Vakantiecursus 2003, Wiskunde in het Dagelijks Leven, CWI Syllabus 52 (2003) p.103-112.ps, pdf.

• Jan Bouwe van den Berg, Natalia Davydova, Barbera van de Fliert, Frank Peeters, Bob Planqué, Harmen van der Ploeg en Guido Terra. Reconstruction of sea surface temperatures from the oxygen isotope composition of fossil planktic foraminifera.
  in: Proceedings of the forty-second European study group with industry, G.M. Hek (ed.), CWI Syllabus 51 (2002) p.91-120. Abstract, ps, pdf.
• Jan Bouwe van den Berg, Gregory Kozyreff, Hai-Xiang Lin, John McDarby, Mark A. Peletier, Robert Planqué, Philip Wilson. Japanese oysters in Dutch waters.
  Abstract, ps, pdf.