Complete information retention by a swarm of imperfect carrier agents

Authors

  • Johnrob Y. Bantang National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

Imperfect carrier agents carry incomplete information. However, as a swarm a complete set of information can be retained if the swarm only requires a cumulative availability. The retention of complete information set of length L maintains the operation of the swarm resulting to its robust dynamics. If any part of that information is lost (or becomes false), the whole swarm functionality breaks down. Examples include: a community loses its cultural identity when part of their culture is lost, a biological organism dies when one organs fail to function, or a virus fails to infect host cells when at least one of the genes are not delivered into the cell. Here, we investigate the possible retention of the whole size L by a swarm of N carrier agents even if each agent is imperfect. When applied to typical values of L and q, a critical swarm size of N* ~ 10 results.

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Article ID

SPP-2010-4A-05

Section

Complex Systems

Published

2010-10-25

How to Cite

[1]
JY Bantang, Complete information retention by a swarm of imperfect carrier agents, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 28, SPP-2010-4A-05 (2010). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2010-4A-05.