This paper describes an experiment designed to measure the effect of collaborative communication on task performance of a multiagent system. A simulation of a multiagent environment modeled after a bee colony examined the effects of collaboration through communication for various numbers of agents and environment sizes. Results show that collaboration enables a smaller number of agents to perform as well as a significantly larger number of agents without coordination. In particular, results indicate that the biologically inspired communication model of the bee is a particularly effective method of agent communication and collaboration.
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