Browsing Journal Articles and Proceedings by Author "Nagpal, Radhika"

Now showing items 1-2 of 2

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

      Dornhaus, Anna; Nagpal, Radhika; Radeva, Tsvetomira T.; Lynch, Nancy Ann; Su, Hsin-Hao (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-12)
      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 ...

    • Task Allocation in Ant Colonies 

      Cornejo, Alejandro; Dornhaus, Anna; Nagpal, Radhika; Lynch, Nancy Ann (Springer-Verlag, 2014-08)
      In this paper we propose a mathematical model for studying the phenomenon of division of labor in ant colonies. Inside this model we investigate how simple task allocation mechanisms can be used to achieve an optimal ...