Herd Those Sheep: Emergent Multiagent Coordination and Behavioral-Mode Switching.

ABSTRACT: Effectively coordinating one's behaviors with those of others is essential for successful multiagent activity. In recent years, increased attention has been given to understanding the dynamical principles that underlie such coordination because of a growing interest in behavioral synchrony and complex-systems phenomena. Here, we examined the behavioral dynamics of a novel, multiagent shepherding task, in which pairs of individuals had to corral small herds of virtual sheep in the center of a virtual game field. Initially, all pairs adopted a complementary, search-and-recover mode of behavioral coordination, in which both members corralled sheep predominantly on their own sides of the field. Over the course of game play, however, a significant number of pairs spontaneously discovered a more

SUBMITTER: Nalepka P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5424702 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature