Costs of task allocation with local feedback: Effects of colony size and extra workers in social insects and other multi-agent systems

• Tsvetomira Radeva ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: radeva@csail.mit.edu

  Affiliation Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7179-0706

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• Anna Dornhaus ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

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• Nancy Lynch ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3045-265X

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• Radhika Nagpal ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9756-0167

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• Hsin-Hao Su

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

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