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蜜蜂回家 - 群体规模对决策的影响

Honeybees Moving Home - The Effect of Swarm Size on Decision-making
课程网址: http://videolectures.net/eccs07_beekman_hmh/  
主讲教师: Madeleine Beekman
开课单位: 悉尼大学
开课时间: 2007-11-27
课程语种: 英语
中文简介:
蜜蜂蜂群面临着一项具有挑战性的任务:如何决定新家。做出这样一个决策的方式是分散决策的一个主要例子:在该过程中只涉及蜂群中的一小部分蜜蜂,每个蜜蜂都依据当地信息。以前的工作已经使用基于个体的模拟来揭示蜜蜂参与决策的行为如何导致群体共同选择最佳可能的巢穴位置。在这里,我们探讨当一个巢址(法定人数)中存在一定数量的蜜蜂来结束审议时,群体的大小如何影响决策过程的准确性。一旦达到法定人数,参与决策过程的蜜蜂就会向蜂群中的其他蜜蜂表明已做出决定并且群体将准备起飞。假设一个固定的法定数量,我们表明群体越大,它就越不可能选择最佳的巢址,因为在该过程的早期就会达到法定人数。我们还表明,决策过程的速度在小群中减少,特别是当只发现平庸质量的地点时。因此,我们的结果表明,大群体通常会做出次优决策,而小群需要更多时间来选择巢穴,但小群体平均选择质量更好的地点。
课程简介: Honeybee swarms are faced with a challenging task: how to decide on a new home. The way in which such a decision is made is a prime example of decentralised decision-making: only a small subset of bees in the swarm are involved in the process, each acting upon local information. Previous work has used individual-based simulations to unravel how the behaviour of the bees engaged in decision-making results in the swarm collectively choosing the best possible nest site. Here we explore how the size of the swarm affects the accuracy of the decision-making process when the presence of a certain number of bees at one nest site (quorum) is used to end the deliberations. As soon as a quorum is reached bees involved in the decision-making process indicate to the other bees on the swarm that a decision has been made and the swarm will prepare for lift-off. Assuming a fixed quorum size, we show that the larger the swarm, the less likely it will be able to select the best nest site as the quorum will be reached early in the process. We also show that the speed of the decision-making process is reduced in small swarms especially when only sites of mediocre quality have been discovered. Our results therefore indicate that large swarms will often make sub-optimal decisions while small swarms will require more time to select a nest site but that small swarms select, on average, better quality sites.
关 键 词: 分散决策; 次优决策; 法定人数
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