About the Authors
- Misako Takayasu
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* E-mail: takayasu@dis.titech.ac.jp (MT); sano@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (YS)
Affiliation Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Kazuya Sato
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Affiliation Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Yukie Sano
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* E-mail: takayasu@dis.titech.ac.jp (MT); sano@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (YS)
Affiliations College of Science and Technology, Nihon University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan, Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Kenta Yamada
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Affiliations Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
- Wataru Miura
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Affiliation Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Hideki Takayasu
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Affiliations Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Competing Interests
Hideki Takayasu is an employee of Sony CSL, Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
MT and HT planned the research project. YS and WM contributed the empirical data analysis. KY and KS contributed the simulation results. MT, YS, KY and KS wrote the manuscript.