Foraging swarms as Nash equilibria of dynamic games

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2014
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Özgüler, A. B.
Yildiz, A.
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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
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2168-2267
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IEEE
Volume
44
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6
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979 - 987
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English
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The question of whether foraging swarms can form as a result of a noncooperative game played by individuals is shown here to have an affirmative answer. A dynamic game played by N agents in 1-D motion is introduced and models, for instance, a foraging ant colony. Each agent controls its velocity to minimize its total work done in a finite time interval. The game is shown to have a unique Nash equilibrium under two different foraging location specifications, and both equilibria display many features of a foraging swarm behavior observed in biological swarms. Explicit expressions are derived for pairwise distances between individuals of the swarm, swarm size, and swarm center location during foraging.

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