Group Size and Group Performance in Small Collaborative Team Settings: An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Collaborative Decision-Making Dynamics

Figure 3

A schematic illustration of agents’ searching process on a two-dimensional problem space. (a) Four agents independently search for the maximum solution using the “hill-climbing” strategy [70]. The starting and ending points are represented as a round dot and a triangle dot, respectively. The searching traces of agents 1, 2, 3, and 4 are displayed in thin brown, orange, green, and blue lines, respectively. (b) A group of four agents collaboratively search for the maximum solution using the “hill-climbing” strategy. The large round and triangle dots represent the starting and ending points of group searching. The group’s searching trace is displayed in thicker black lines. Note. Each point in the problem space represents a solution, while the corresponding color denotes the value of the point. For example, dark red refers to a high value, whereas dark blue refers to a low value.