Human Fitness Functions

Abstract

"Be careful what you measure" is a management adage that applies to Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and is especially important with Humans in the Swarm. PSO has been applied to the autonomous asset management problem in electronic warfare where the speed provides fast optimization of frequency allocations for receivers and jammers in highly complex and dynamic environments in our previous work. In this optimization problem, one key part of the fitness is adapted by the human: the 2D (and future 3D) battlefield environment. This paper explores the use of the human in the fitness function, adapting to the battlefield conditions as the PSO is acting. Two aspects of dynamic human influence will be discussed: Simple geometric zones and pheromone influenced zones.