id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt zp38w952r0p Paul William Schermerhorn The Cost of Communication: Efficient Coordination in Multi-agent Territory Exploration Tasks 2008 .txt text/plain 261 9 27 A subsequent analysis of the results establishes constraints on the cost of communication must be satisfied in order for it to provide a benefit in relative performance} (i.e., absolute performance scaled by agent cost), required for communication to evolve. To address this shortcoming, an extensive series of simulations is presented that explore the effect of such parameters on the utility of communication for coordinating agent behaviors in the multi-agent territory exploration (MATE(n)) task. cache/zp38w952r0p.txt txt/zp38w952r0p.txt