Synergetic Effects of TEAMWORK

After the transmission of the new search state

In a TEAMWORK-based system not only some facts of the not-winning experts are transmitted to the winning expert, but the resulting seach state of the winner is transmitted back to all experts. So, all experts start their next working period from the same point in the search space. But the experts still use their own different problem solving strategies. This way, the situation in our picture can quickly be reached.

The start from a common search state has two effects:

• Although the best expert may have a good start point, the chances to find a solution are better, if all experts have this start point and search then in different directions (as one can see in the picture, not the expert that was the winner goes into the direction of the nearest solution but one of the loosers).
• The common start state allows the usage of experts that can get lost in the search space (this means that they go into regions of the search space that do not contain solutions). Either these experts are now in a part in which they cannot get lost or they can be exchanged later and their successors do not have to cope with the bad situation their predecessors left them in.

So, the team meetings allow to focus the team on the given task.

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Last Change: 5/12/2013