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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-12-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5746283?pdf=render |