5 papers
Being a leader or being the leader: The evolution of institutionalised hierarchy
Cedric Perret, Emma Hart, Simon T. Powers
Human social hierarchy has the unique characteristic of existing in two forms. Firstly, as an informal hierarchy where leaders and followers are implicitly defined by their persona…
Can justice be fair when it is blind? How social network structures can promote or prevent the evolution of despotism
Cedric Perret, Simon T. Powers, Jeremy Pitt +1
Hierarchy is an efficient way for a group to organize, but often goes along with inequality that benefits leaders. To control despotic behaviour, followers can assess leaders decis…
Optimisation and Illumination of a Real-world Workforce Scheduling and Routing Application via Map-Elites
Neil Urquhart, Emma Hart
Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problems (WSRP) are very common in many practical domains, and usually, have a number of objectives. Illumination algorithms such as Map-Elites (ME…
An Investigation of Environmental Influence on the Benefits of Adaptation Mechanisms in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics
Andreas Steyven, Emma Hart, Ben Paechter
A robotic swarm that is required to operate for long periods in a potentially unknown environment can use both evolution and individual learning methods in order to adapt. However,…
Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm
Emma Hart, Andreas S. W. Steyven, Ben Paechter
The presence of functional diversity within a group has been demonstrated to lead to greater robustness, higher performance and increased problem-solving ability in a broad range o…