Doctoral Dissertations

Keywords and Phrases

Division Of Labor; Evolution; Normalized Mutual Entropy; Phenotypic Specialization; Stochastic Model

Abstract

"This work examines the possibility of evolving the phenotypic specialization associated with division of labor in an agent-based model without task-switching costs. The model examines two groups competing for vital resources, where members of one group are capable of sharing resources with other agents in their group. Agents attempt to collect resources which allow them to reproduce, with more resources leading to a greater number of offspring by asexual reproduction. Four variants of the model are examined, with combinations of one or two resources and the presence of a foraging risk. The presence of the foraging risk can lead to agents in the sharing group specializing in each trait but, by looking at the fraction of foragers per generation, this event appears to be a transient state. Division of labor is quantified by calculating the normalized mutual entropy, and is shown to be higher when a population contains agents which specialize on different tasks"--Abstract, page iii.

Advisor(s)

Bahar, Sonya
Vojta, Thomas

Committee Member(s)

Flores, Ricardo
Parris, Paul Ernest, 1954-
Tang-Martinez, Zuleyma

Department(s)

Physics

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Physics

Comments

Doctorate of Philosophy in Physics from the co-op program between the University of Missouri--St. Louis and Missouri University of Science and Technology

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Publication Date

Spring 2018

Pagination

ix, 79 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographic references (pages 74-78).

Rights

© 2018 Shane Robert Meyer, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Thesis Number

T 11300

Electronic OCLC #

1041858370

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