DocumentCode
1625103
Title
Practical and theoretical investigation of a collective work
Author
Suzuki, Yasuhiro ; Tanaka, Hiroshi
Author_Institution
Med. Res. Inst., Tokyo Med. & Dental Univ., Japan
Volume
3
fYear
1999
fDate
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
263
Abstract
We study the gathering of objects by agents to investigate the process of collective work. We set a simple environment for the gathering work in which agents do not communicate with each other, the place to gather the objects does not exist, and a well-known simple model of gathering objects is taken. First, we describe the basic mechanism of this model precisely. Then we simulate the model under various environments and discover that the way of placing objects and the range of agent´s operation influence gathering work. We investigate the basic mechanism of these phenomena and find that this model relates to a well-known problem in probability theory, the “classical bankrupt problem”. We investigate this problem and obtain an approximate solution in the general case
Keywords
multi-agent systems; probability; basic mechanism; classical bankrupt problem; collective work; gathering work; probability theory; Chemicals; Dentistry; Food preservation; Game theory; Milling machines; Mobile robots; Probes; Traveling salesman problems;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Tokyo
ISSN
1062-922X
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5731-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSMC.1999.823198
Filename
823198
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