Costs of task allocation with local feedback: Effects of colony size and extra workers in social insects and other multi-agent systems

Adaptive collective systems are common in biology and beyond. Typically, such systems require a task allocation algorithm: a mechanism or rule-set by which individuals select particular roles. Here we study the performance of such task allocation mechanisms measured in terms of the time for individu...

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Main Authors: Dornhaus, Anna, Nagpal, Radhika, Radeva, Tsvetomira T., Lynch, Nancy Ann, Su, Hsin-Hao
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118171
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1261-6681
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3045-265X