Chaos and Convergence in Bucket Brigades with Finite Walk-Back Velocities
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A “bucket brigade” assembly line is capable of complex new dynamics if workers differ in the speeds at which they walk back to get more work. In this extended model the line is self-balancing if each worker takes work from a colleague who is more slowed by the act of work than he. Under alternative schemes of sharing work the behavior of an assembly line can be chaotic and so effectively indistinguishable from randomness, even though our model is completely deterministic.
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