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Effect of interaction network structure in a response threshold model
Ist Teil von
Artificial life and robotics, 2022-11, Vol.27 (4), p.743-750
Ort / Verlag
Tokyo: Springer Japan
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Task allocation is a characteristic feature of social insects. This phenomenon is self-organized by workers in a colony without central instructions. Workers perform the necessary tasks while communicating and determining their colony’s local situations or outside environments. They can also allocate the workload of the task to finish quickly. To explain the self-organized phenomenon, we develop a theoretical model that includes the local interaction mechanism among the workers. We extend the fixed response threshold model by introducing the interaction network among workers. The new model is called the interaction network response threshold model. This model analyzes the effects of the interaction network structure on the workload allocation mechanism using the Gini coefficient. We find that the network structure affects the information diffusion process, and the network features affect workload allocation. Our results indicate that communication among the workers in a colony is an essential system for workload allocation.