Division of labour is one of the possible strategies to efficiently exploit the resources of autonomous systems. It is also a phenomenon often observed in animal systems. We show an architecture that implements division of labour in Sensor/Actuator Networks. The way the nodes take their decisions is inspired by ants’ foraging behaviour. The preliminary results show that the architecture and the bio-inspired mechanism successfully induce self-organised division of labour in the network. The experiments were run in simulation. We developed a new type of simulator for this purpose. Key features of our work are cross-layer design and exploitation of inter-node interactions. No explicit negotiation between the agents takes place.
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Labella, T.H., Dressler, F. (2007). A Bio-Inspired Architecture for Division of Labour in SANETs. In: Dressler, F., Carreras, I. (eds) Advances in Biologically Inspired Information Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 69. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72693-7_11
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