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chapter 1. Automatic systems for capturing the normal and abnormal behaviors of honey bees / James Devillers and Hugo Devillers -- chapter 2. Computational modeling of organization in honey bee societies based on adaptive role allocation / Mark Hoogendoorn, Martijn C. Schut, and Jan Treur -- chapter 3. Illustrating the contrasting roles of self-organization in biological systems with two case histories of collective decision making in the honey bee / Brian R. Johnson -- chapter 4. Models for the recruitment and allocation of honey bee foragers / Mary R. Myerscough, James R. Edwards, and Timothy M. Schaerf -- chapter 5. Infectious disease modeling for honey bee colonies / Hermann J. Eberl, Peter G. Kevan, and Vardayani Ratti -- chapter 6. Honey bee ecology from an urban landscape perspective : the spatial ecology of feral honey bees / Kristen A. Baum, Maria D. Tchakerian, Andrew G. Birt, and Robert N. Coulson -- chapter 7. QSAR modeling of pesticide toxicity to bees / James Devillers -- chapter 8. Mathematical models for the comprehension of chemical contamination into the hive / Paolo Tremolada and Marco Vighi -- chapter 9. Agent-based modeling of the long-term effects of pyriproxyfen on honey bee population / James Devillers, Hugo Devillers, Axel Decourtye, Julie Fourrier, Pierrick Aupinel, and Dominique Fortini -- chapter 10. Simulation of solitary (non-apis) bees competing for pollen / Jeroen Everaars and Carsten F. Dormann -- chapter 11. Estimating the potential range expansion and environmental impact of the invasive bee-hawking hornet, vespa velutina nigrithorax / Claire Villemant, Franck Muller, Quentin Rome, Adrien Perrard, Morgane Barbet-Massin, and Fr?d?ric Jiguet.