| On 2023-06-30 at 15:00:00 (Brussels Time) |
Abstract
In this seminar, I present the work I have conducted at the IRIDIA laboratory in the last five months. I tackle the best-of-2 problem when stubborn agents are present and I show that swarm heterogeneity provides a trade-off between collective resilience and cognitive cost. I develop mathematical models that describe the collective decision-making process that brings a group of agents to an agreement on the best option through the exchange of opinions and I combine those models into heterogeneous swarms. Finally, I analyze the latter through a series of metrics in order to quantify their resilience and their cost in terms of the number of messages they need to process.
