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Co-evolving semi-competitive interactions of sheepdog herding behaviors utilizing a simple rule-based multi agent framework

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Source:

Artificial Life (ALIFE), 2013 IEEE Symposium on, IEEE, Singapore (0)

ISBN:

2160-6374

Abstract:

<div class="article" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24.012800216674805px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><p>Sheepdog herding behaviors demonstrate an interesting form of interactions between two classes of agents - sheep and the dog. The nature of the interactions between sheep and the dog takes a special form of competition which is different to the traditional prey-predator interactions where the success of prey depends on the failure of the predator and vice versa. In consequent, the development of an appropriate objective function to efficiently co-evolve successful sheepdog herding behaviors becomes challenging. This paper presents a framework to efficiently co-evolve sheepdog herding behaviors utilizing the simple rule based agent approach in order to derive high fidelity behavior dynamics and discusses the challenges involved in the process.</p></div><div class="article-ftr" style="padding-top: 4px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24.012800216674805px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">&nbsp;</div>