Evolving agent swarms for clustering and sorting

  • Authors:
  • Vegard Hartmann

  • Affiliations:
  • The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

  • Venue:
  • GECCO '05 Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Social insect societies consist of individuals with simple behavior, yet at the collective level the societies are capable of solving complex tasks. These tasks span a wide range, including clustering, patch sorting, and annular sorting. It has proved particularly difficult to recreate the social insects ability to perform annular sorting, even for engineered solutions. In this paper we present the results we have obtained from evolving swarms of agents that are capable of performing clustering, patch sorting, and annular sorting. Most noteworthy is our solution to the 3-type annular sorting problem which has previously not been solved successfully.