Towards a Cognitive Design Pattern for Collective Decision-Making

We introduce the concept of cognitive design pattern to provide a design methodology for distributed multi-agent systems. A cognitive design pattern is a reusable solution to tackle problems requiring cognitive abilities (e. g., decision-making, attention, categorisation). It provides theoretical models and design guidelines to define the individual control rules in order to obtain a desired behaviour for the multi-agent system as a whole. In this paper, we propose a cognitive design pattern for collective decision-making inspired by the nest-site selection behaviour of honeybee swarms. We illustrate how to apply the pattern to a case study involving spatial factors: the collective selection of the shortest path between two target areas. We analyse the dynamics of the multi-agent system and we show a very good agreement with the predictions of the macroscopic model.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Contributo in atti di convegno
Author or Creator: 
Reina, Andreagiovanni
Dorigo, Marco
Trianni, Vito
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin , Germania
Source: 
ANTS 2014: Ninth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, pp. 194–205, 2014
Date: 
2014
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/308198
urn:isbn:978-3-319-09951-4
Language: 
Eng
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di Vito Trianni
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