Wasps: Task Differentiation

System Behavior: Mature Polistes wasps in a nest divide into three groups, a single Chief, a group of Foragers who hunt for food, and a group of Nurses who care for the brood. The wasps are all genetically identical.
Responsibilities: Each wasps maintains two parameters: a Force parameter that determines how mobile it is, and a Foraging Threshold that determines how likely the wasp is to go seek food. The brood maintains a Demand for food.
1. When to wasps meet, they face off. The winner is determined so that the wasp with the highest Force is more likely to win. A quantum of force is moved from the loser to the winner.
2. When the brood receives food, this reduces the Demand
3. When a was is near a brood, it determines whether or not to forage. The more Demand and lower Foraging Threshold, the more likely it is to go. If it does, its Foraging Threshold is decreased.
Integration: The ones with low threshold and low force become nurses, those with low threshold and high force become foragers. The chief has high force and high threshold and serves to ground the force and threshold scales and balances them across the population.