How many ants does it take to find the food?

Yuval Emek; Tobias Langner; David Stolz; Jara Uitto; Roger Wattenhofer

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09620-9_21

How many ants does it take to find the food?

Yuval Emek, Tobias Langner, David Stolz, Jara Uitto, Roger Wattenhofer

Data and Decision Sciences

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Abstract

Consider the Ants Nearby Treasure Search (ANTS) problem, where n mobile agents, initially placed at the origin of an infinite grid, collaboratively search for an adversarially hidden treasure. The agents are controlled by deterministic/randomized finite or pushdown automata and are able to communicate with each other through constant-size messages. We show that the minimum number of agents required to solve the ANTS problem crucially depends on the computational capabilities of the agents as well as the timing parameters of the execution environment. We give lower and upper bounds for different scenarios.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Structural Information and Communication Complexity - 21st International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2014, Proceedings
Pages	263-278
Number of pages	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09620-9_21
State	Published - 2014
Event	21st International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2014 - Takayama, Japan Duration: 23 Jul 2014 → 25 Jul 2014

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	8576 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	21st International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2014
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Takayama
Period	23/07/14 → 25/07/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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10.1007/978-3-319-09620-9_21

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Emek, Y., Langner, T., Stolz, D., Uitto, J., & Wattenhofer, R. (2014). How many ants does it take to find the food? In Structural Information and Communication Complexity - 21st International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2014, Proceedings (pp. 263-278). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8576 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09620-9_21

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Emek, Y, Langner, T, Stolz, D, Uitto, J & Wattenhofer, R 2014, How many ants does it take to find the food? in Structural Information and Communication Complexity - 21st International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2014, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 8576 LNCS, pp. 263-278, 21st International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2014, Takayama, Japan, 23/07/14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09620-9_21

How many ants does it take to find the food? / Emek, Yuval; Langner, Tobias; Stolz, David et al.
Structural Information and Communication Complexity - 21st International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2014, Proceedings. 2014. p. 263-278 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8576 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review