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Title
Japanese: 
English:Emergent Transportation Networks by Considering Interactions between Agents and their Environment 
Author
Japanese: 倉林 大輔, Katsunori Urano, 舩戸 徹郎.  
English: Daisuke Kurabayashi, Katsunori Urano, Tetsuro Funato.  
Language English 
Journal/Book name
Japanese: 
English:Advanced Robotics 
Volume, Number, Page Vol. 21    No. 12    pp. 1339-1349
Published date Dec. 2007 
Publisher
Japanese: 
English:Brill, VSP 
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Conference site
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Official URL http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/vsp/arb
 
DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/156855307781746070
Abstract We have formulated and examined an autonomous organization system for a transportationnetwork system. In this paper, we have considered costs not only for traversing the network but alsofor maintaining some routes on it. We assume that a working agent utilizes pheromone like items fornavigating them. We have formulated a traversing cost of a route by considering the density of theitems, which reflects the density of agents using the route. An agent arranges its route iteratively,then a whole network converges a state. Because the cost function becomes nonlinear equation,the topology of the emerged network depends on the resource of the system, the population of theagents. The results show that the proposed algorithm can change a transportation network into afeasible topology with a minimum traversing cost and the properties of a small world network.

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