Hierarchical Organization of Robots: A Social Simulation Study
CPM Report No.: 98-36
By: Scott Moss and Kerstin
Dautenhahn
Date: May 1998
Abstract
There are distinct literatures on the simulation of hierarchical organization
of robots and the simulation of emerging or alternative structures of social
organizations. The robotics literature does not consider purposive development
of organizational structures by robots while the emergence of such structures
in simulation models of simple agents is the meat and drink of computational
organization theory. In this paper, we motivate and report simulation experiments
within a canonical task environment to assess the benefits from introducing
richer organizational structures to control essentially simple but fallible
robot-type agents.
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